Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and…
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1. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
By: Sebastian Smee
3.93
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artis… read more
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2. Keys to Drawing
By: Bert Dodson
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodsonshares his complete drawin… read more
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3. Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
By: Rudolf Arnheim
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1954, this work has established itself as a unique classic. It appli… read more
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5. Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
By: Francine Prose
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-197… read more
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6. The Shock of the New
By: Robert Hughes
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. M… read more
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7. The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
By: Anne-Marie O'Connor
3.90
Format: 205 pages,
The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most reco… read more
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8. Life with Picasso
By: Françoise Gilot
4.09
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she … read more
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"...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
9. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
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10. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
By: None
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a… read more
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11. The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
By: Danny Gregory
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author of "Everyday Matters: A New York Diary" teaches readers to open their lives to creativit… read more
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12. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
13. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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14. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
15. Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
By: Hugh Eakin
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center… read more
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16. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more
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17. Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
By: Alexander Nemerov
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth-century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler… read more
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18. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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19. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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20. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
By: Jennifer Higgie
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher… read more
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21. Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
By: Jerry Saltz
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readabl… read more
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