Biographies About
Visual Artists

From Renaissance masters to modern rebels, hear the stories of people with a gift
for seeing the ideal and imaginary—and making us believe.

The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. This book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful and tells the story of the built environment....

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the 20th century....

Jean Renoir's career almost spans the history years of cinema - from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir....

The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries listeners deep inside the art underworld - and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself....

Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

If Dali stands as one of the canonical figures of modern art, this involved holding both a seminal role in the canon of cutting-edge art but also a tendency to challenge audiences....

Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier - a man who invented new ways of building and thinking....

There is perhaps no artist who produced more workthan Picasso, whose oeuvre contained countless paintings and drawings. Picasso's works within each medium vastly differ....

33 Artists in 3 Acts offers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers....

Following sharply in the footsteps of Edouard Manet, Claude Monet was one of the first painters identified within the Impressionist circle....

In Wear Your Dreams, Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist, to the ultimate transformation of his career into a multibillion dollar branding empire....

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The New York Times comes an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright....

Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history....

Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the 20th century....

Unlike most artists, Van Gogh developed very slowly, beginning with work as an art dealer that exposed him to many great works. He undertook this work for several years, after which he spent time as a missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church....

When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the 20th century....

Following in the footsteps of Edouard Manet, Claude Monet was one of the first painters identified within the Impressionist circle....

A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of 20th-century art....

To appreciate great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them....

Picasso has often been called the greatest artist of this century....