Artist Architect

While still a young boy, Robb White built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop in the backyard. Today, without any formal training, White constructs some of the most sought-after wooden boats around. In How to Build a Tin Canoe, this Southern raconteur and self-taught expert wooden-boat builder recounts tall tales of a life lived on the water, from his childhood exploring the Gulf of Mexico to growing up - or not really growing up - to share his accrued wisdom with others.

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with family and friends, were crucial sources for this book. Freud had ferocious energy, worked day and night, but his circle was broad, including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models gamblers, bookies, and gangsters like the Kray twins.

To get a sense of the kind of prestige that Claude Monet's reputation has within the art world, one need only learn that his Le Bassin Aux Nympheás (1919) - from his series of paintings featuring water lilies - sold for the equivalent of more than $70 million. This is an incredibly staggering price, especially considering that early in his life, Monet had been so poor and debt-ridden that some of his paintings were taken from him by creditors.

A lo largo de más de setenta años de actividad creadora, es decir, durante todo el período de desarrollo del arte actual, Pablo Picasso ha sido el centro de la vida artística de su tiempo. Nunca ha seguido reglas ni normas determinadas. Para él, el arte ha sido siempre una aventura en busca de una pintura nueva: su producción ha sido una continua renovación.

Entrevistas a los amigos y contemporáneos del pintor Miguel Covarruibias. Extraordinario pintor, caricaturista, escenógrafo y etnógrafo; contemporáneo de Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Mérida y Carlos Chávez, y colaborador en El Heraldo, El Mundo, El Universal, Vanity Fair, New Yorker y Fortune. No se puede entender el siglo XX sin su mirada sensible. Sin embargo, para muchos la vida y el legado de este artista continúa siendo un enigma.

Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore the contradictions and unanswered questions of her life.

Written between 2015-16, with color images of well-known old masters and contemporary art as well as some of the Bergers’ own drawings and watercolors, Over to You is an informal back and forth not unlike the ping-pong games father and son used to play in the barn of their house. It begins when John—who is in a Parisian suburb—sends Yves—who is in Haute Savoie—an envelope of reproductions of art that have moved him. And so they begin to reveal their thoughts looking at a Goya, Watteau, Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Durer, Caravaggio, Manet, and Euan Uglow, among many others.

Ferocious Love is about Latimer Bowen’s journey from a wounded artist struggling with depression to a prophetic artist and seer who partners with the Holy Spirit to transfer God’s message and vision onto canvas.

Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister, Donna, introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on 12-year-old Rush’s tongue, proclaiming: “This is sacrament. You are one of us now.”

With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolomini appears alive. Carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1636 - 37 for his own pleasure, the portrait of Costanza is one of his most captivating works, but until now little has been known about its subject. For centuries Costanza was identified only as Bernini's mistress, who later incited his rage by betraying him for his brother. Author Sarah McPhee corrects and expands this story in her remarkable biography of a sculpture and its subject.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist extraordinaire: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

FRIDA KAHLO aparece en las listas de las pintoras más famosas a nivel mundial. Es conocida por sus retratos y obras inspiradas en la naturaleza y el arte popular mexicanos, pero sobre todo por sus coloridos y expresivos autorretratos que abarcan temas universales como la identidad, el cuerpo humano y la muerte. Optó por transformar en arte las situaciones dolorosas de su vida, con lo cual creó un estilo propio, donde plasmó no solo sus problemas y dolores físicos, sino también los emocionales. En vida fue un ícono de estilo, rebeldía y fuerza femenina.

Mary fought for a place as a professional artist without having to live as a tragic heroine. She married George Reid, Canadian muralist, and while their relationship was more equal than most, this was still the Edwardian age. How do you find time to paint when you need to get to the market to buy a chicken for dinner?

Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that would destroy both their lives.

Dive into the enigmatic world of "Articulating Splendor," an eBook that captures the quintessence of beauty, emotion, and philosophy woven within the tapestry of architectural design. This thought-provoking collection unveils the multidimensional relationship between form and feeling, exploring how every line, curve, and color embodies a narrative waiting to be discovered. Prepare to embark on a journey that delves into The Essence of Aesthetic Architecture, unraveling the defining elements that transform mere structures into masterpieces of cultural resonance. "Articulating Splendor" ...

Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? To find out, Onno Blom immersed himself in the world, the country, the city, and the house in which Rembrandt was born in 1606 and where he spent the first 25 years of his life. The result is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man, rich in local and biographical detail, and restless in its efforts to seek out the roots of his genius.

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. Thereafter, he drifted for several years before returning home to his parents’ house, where he took up painting, largely self-taught with books on anatomy and painting. His great works all date from the later years of his life.

El muralismo mexicano cambió para siempre la manera de experimentar el arte público, y no solo en Latinoamérica, sino alrededor del mundo. Diego Rivera emerge como uno de los pintores más descollantes de aquel movimiento artístico. Alimentado de las tradiciones aztecas y de las vanguardias de su tiempo, Rivera plasmó su arte en obras fulgurantes como “El mercado de Tlatelolco” y “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central”.

Meet the cool creatives behind awe-inspiring art, with this non-fiction title for kids. Pour paint onto a canvas with Jackson Pollock, laugh along with the pranks of Hokusai, and find beauty in your self-portrait with Frida Kahlo, as you follow the stories of more than 50 fabulous artists and their groundbreaking work. Through charming storytelling rich in detail, Artists covers celebrated figures as well as lesser-known trailblazers, each with a tale as intriguing as it is unique.