Artists biographies
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10 Artist Biographies Everyone Should Have On Their Shelves
If you are looking for an escape from the news and the noise, try our list of award-winning memoirs and artist biographies to add to your &#;to-read&#; shelf.
Our reading list evokes both the artists’ inner lives and their connections to their contemporaries and the art scene, whilst others shed light on the complexity of these figures and meditate on existential questions. We spotlight a selection of books drawing from previously unpublished letters and personal notes, through the scandalous &#;80s New York art scene to never-before-seen interviews and contemplations on the purpose of making art.
Widow Basquiat
by Jennifer Clement,
Instead of writing a classic artist biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, award-winning author Jennifer Clement chronicles her close friend Suzanne Mallouk&#;s love affair with Basquiat in an emotionally resonant prose. Drawing from Mallouk&#;s memories, Clement takes us through the m
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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.
Van Gogh
- The Life
- By: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
Overall
Performance
Story
Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory vit Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials and illuminated with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul
- 5 out of 5 stars
Empathy for a True Artist
- By Sojourning Hope on
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Painter and illustrator, born in Windsor, Berkshire to Liberal politician Anthony Baliol Brett, a son of Viscount Esher. He studied at St. Martin's School of Art, where he was taught wood engraving by Clifford Webb and painting by Frederick Gore and Peter de Francia. He worked as a painter for several years in New Mexico and Provence, France before turning to teaching in when he taught at Marlborough School for nearly twenty years.
Until , his work as an engraver was largely short-lived - a monograph on his bookplates was published in - but after he illustrated several books, some under his own Paulinus Press imprint, and he won a Francis Williams Illustration Award for The Animals of Saint Gregory. Elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in he was also Chairman of the Society of Wood Engravers, a post he held for six years. In his first book illustrations won a Francis Williams Award and his advertising work also won awards from the commissioning agency.