John Singer Sargent
10 best books like John Singer Sargent (Carter Ratcliff): Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications, A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition, In the Garden with Jane Austen, Greek Art, Caravaggio: A Life, Michelangelo, Essential Pre-Raphaelites, Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles, Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration
Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced...
| Author | Richard Jenkyns |
| ISBN | 0199276617 |
Jane Austen's work was a true triumph of the comic spirit--of deep comedy, rising from the heart of human life. In A Fine Brush on Ivory, Richard Jenkyns takes us on an amiable tour of Austen's fictional world, opening a window on some of the great works of world literature.
Focusing largely on Pride...
| Author | T.J. Clark |
| ISBN | 0691009031 |
The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure groundsthe birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic...
Bringing Jane Austen's gardens--real and fictional--to life with excerpts from her novels and letters, period songs, poetry, and illustrations, this charming recollection offers tips for creating English gardens alongside Austen. This lavishly illustrated exploration with color photographs...
| Author | John Boardman |
| ISBN | 0500202923 |
A fairly interesting book about the art of ancient Greece. It's a quick read, but the history isn't as exciting as the pictures and captions are. There are some amazing photographs in this book. I didn't care much about the pottery, but the statues and the architecture are amazing. Also, this is the first...
| Author | Helen Langdon |
| ISBN | 0374118949 |
Of all the books I've read on Caravaggio, Caravaggio: A Life is the most sympathetic to him as a faithful and inspired artist. It is so easy to dismiss him as so many art historians have as a criminal, a degenerate, a drunk and violent man. If that is all he was that does not explain his abilities as an artist...
| Author | Howard Hibbard |
| ISBN | 0064301486 |
In this masterly work, Howard Hibbard relates Michelangelo’s art to his life and the times in which he lived, relying on the earliest biographies and the latest scholarly research as well as on Michelangelo’s own letters and poems. What emerges is both a perspective appraisal of his work and a revealing...
Essential Pre-Raphaelites
| Author | Lucinda Hawksley |
| ISBN | 1840845244 |
In 1848 a group of seven disillusioned artists, comprising the Rossettis, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Stephens, Thomas Wooner, and James Collinson, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Initially they were ridiculed in the art world for their pretension and subject...
| Author | Francine Prose |
| ISBN | 0060575603 |
“Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.” — Boston Sunday Globe
In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose (Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer)...
Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration
| Author | James Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1857936345 |
The definitive and sumptuous biography of the one of the world's most collectible illustrators contains a richly detailed account of his life along with beautifully enchanting pictures.
Examining the work of the illustrator Arthur Rackham, this monograph traces his achievements...
| Author | Andrew Wyeth |
| ISBN | 0821225693 |
Why did I let this book rest on the shelf for several years before actually reading it? It's not an autobiography in the traditional sense, but I finished it feeling as if I'd actually met Wyeth. He describes his inspiration, thoughts, and techniques, as well as setting and season of a good many of his paintings....
| Author | Linda Nochlin |
| ISBN | 0140132228 |
Linda Nochlin is intelligent. She probably knows more about Art than 99.9999999% of those on the planet, and she certainly knows more about Art than I ever will. She shared so many insights, brought out so many facets of the many works she described in her book Realism that I was amazed and bored. My bad,...
| Author | Robert L. Herbert |
| ISBN | 0300050836 |
“Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field. Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on everything from the hierarchy of theater boxes to the role of beer-hall...
| Author | Paul Klee |
| ISBN | 0571066828 |
This short discussion of modern art is interesting, not only because it is by a modern master, Paul Klee, but also because it explores the artistic process rather than the outcome. Often a book on modern art will look at the products, the art pieces themselves, from the perspective of the non-artist critic...
| Author | Clement Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0807066818 |
As far as art criticism goes this is the good stuff, but I have been gradually lowering my expectations of what art criticism can accomplish. Greenberg is the most well known and influential American art critic of the 20th century, as David Sylvester was in the UK. I enjoy reading both of them but I've gradually...
Color Mixing Bible: All You'll Ever Need to Know About Mixing Pigments in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Soft Pastel, Pencil, and Ink
| Author | Ian Sidaway |
| ISBN | 0823007235 |
Mixing colors accurately may be an art unto itself. In fact, many artists are discouraged by the time and expense it takes to mix and match colors, and achieve the right results. Even more frustrating is the vast range of colors available. Now there’s a ready-to-use visual directory that takes all...
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting as Poetry
| Author | Ingo F. Walther |
| ISBN | 3822859907 |
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the 20th century. Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in...
| Author | Robert Hughes |
| ISBN | 0679426272 |
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.
The intense relationship...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0810935155 |
This extraordinary book pairs two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the physician/novelist/filmmaker Michael Crichton. Since it first appeared in 1977, Michael Crichton's Jasper Johns has been considered the preeminent study of one of America's foremost...
| Author | Alyson B. Stanfield |
| ISBN | 0974272582 |
I'd Rather Be in the Studio! The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion offers practical approaches that help you sell more art and build an art career that lasts. Alyson B. Stanfield, the art-marketing guru behind ArtBizCoach.com, shares self-promotion tools that have enhanced the careers...
| Author | Marilyn Stokstad |
| ISBN | 0131893009 |
While I have always been interested in the history of art, I really didn’t know much about the subject. In order to rectify that fact, a few years ago I went in search of a good introductory book. After some research, I ended up picking up a copy of Marilyn Stokstad’s two-volume set, and I have...
| Author | Katharine Harmon |
| ISBN | 1568987625 |
Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places...
| Author | Katherine Stoddert Gilbert |
This catalogue is so charming, as it depicts the treasures that were in the 1977 Tutankhamun exhibit at the Field Museum. It's really fun to see all the artifacts as they appeared a few decades ago; it was apparent that most had been restored to a better-looking state, comparing their state in '77 and how...
