Spring Cannot Be Cancelled
By: David Hockney
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy in this inspi…
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1. A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
By: Martin Gayford
4.40
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
David Hockney’s exuberant work is widely loved and widely praised, but he is also an incisive and o… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
"Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature."-Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
"Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours."-Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
"After I'd drawn the grasses, I started seeing them. Whereas if you'd just photographed them, you wouldn't be looking as intently as you do when you are drawing, so it wouldn't affect you that much."-Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
"Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grop…"-Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
2. Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
By: Martin Gayford
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Lucian Freud, perhaps the world's leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- nonfiction
3. Playing to the Gallery
By: Grayson Perry
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art" Now Grayson Perry is… read more
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4. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
5. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- british literature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
6. 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
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"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
7. I Paint What I Want to See
By: Philip Guston
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twenti… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
8. 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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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
9. The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
By: Rob Walker
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
10. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Death makes pioneers of us all, whether we like it or whether we don't."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"You're trying to intellectualise something, desperately, and you're wasting your time ... To make it into mini-logic ... you never understand by that road. - Quoting Leonora Carrington"-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
11. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
12. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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- nonfiction
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
13. Spring Cannot Be Cancelled
By: David Hockney
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy in this inspi… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- france
- nonfiction
- contemporary
14. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- nonfiction
- contemporary
15. The Vanishing Point
By: Andrea Hotere
3.43
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two wo… read more
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16. 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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- art
- art history
- biography
- nonfiction
17. Weave
By: Oein DeBhairduin
4.32
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Weave is the second of the Solstice Stories, an innovative series designed to celebrate the small, … read more
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18. The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations
By: Martin Gayford
4.16
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
One of our leading art critics and writers, Martin Gayford, recounts his travels and meetings with … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
19. David Hockney. A Chronology
By: Hans Werner Holzwarth
4.66
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perce… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
20. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. Thinking Again
By: Jan Morris
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Fo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"...that the simplest and easiest of virtues, Kindness, can offer all of us not only a Way through the imbroglio, but a Destination too."-Jan Morris, Thinking Again
