Beschreibung:
Hodge, SusieSusie Hodge has written over 100 books on art, art history and artistic techniques, including I Know an Artist, Art Quest: Classic Art Counterfeit, What Makes Great Design, Modern Art Mayhem, Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That, Art in Detail and Modern Art in Detail. In addition, she hosts lectures, talks and practical workshops, and regularly appears on television and radio, as well as in documentaries. She has twice been named the No. 1 art writer by the Independent.
Discover the fascinating connections between the world's greatest artists.
I Know an Artist introduces some of the most inspirational stories of friendship, love, creativity and shared passions in the world of art. Each of the 84 illustrated profiles reveal the fascinating links between some of the best known artists. Whether through teaching, as in the case of Paul Klee and Anni Albers; a mutual muse, as seen in the flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe and Takashi Murakami; or an inspirational romantic coupling like that of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.
In telling the tales of these creatives lives and achievements - each extraordinary and oftentimes ground-breaking - Susie Hodge exposes the fascinating web of connections that have fostered some of the world's art masterpieces. Some are well-known, whereas others span both time and place, linking pioneers in art in fascinating and unexpected ways.
Illustrated in colourful tribute to each artists' unique style, I Know An Artist is an illuminating and celebratory account of some of the art world's most compelling visionaries. A perfect introduction for students, and a source of new and surprising stories for art lovers.
I Know an Artist is a collection of 84 beautifully illustrated portraits that reveal the fascinating connections between famous artists throughout history.
- Claude Monet
- Anya Gallaccio
- John Singer Sargent
- Édouard Manet
- Edgar Degas
- Mary Cassatt
- Lucy Bacon
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Kathë Kollwitz
- Tamara De Lempicka
- Varvara Stepanova
- Francis Bacon
- George Grosz
- Hannah Höch
- Piet Mondrian
- Bridget Riley
- Ben Nicholson
- Barbara Hepworth
- Pablo Picasso
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Diego Rivera
- Frida Kahlo
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Takashi Murakami
- Yayoi Kusama
- Marina Abramovic
- Cornelia Parker
- Auguste Rodin
- Camille Claudel
- Constantin Brancusi
- Fernand Léger
- Sonia Delaunay-Terk
- Paul Klee
- Anni Albers
- Julie Mehretu
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Hilma Af Klint
- Agnes Martin
- Margaret Macdonald
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Marcel Duchamp
- Alexander Calder
- Joan Miró
- Louise Bourgeois
- Tracey Emin
- Max Ernst
- Alberto Giacometti
- Paul Cézanne
- Lois Mailou-Jones
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Paul Gauguin
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
- Suzanne Valadon
- Maurice Utrillo
- Henri Matisse
- Pierre Bonnard
- Gustav Klimt
- Egon Schiele
- Edvard Munch
- Jasper Johns
- Andy Warhol
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jenny Holzer
- Alice Neel
- Lee Krasner
- Jackson Pollock
- Hans Hofmann
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Robert Motherwell
- Yves Tanguy
- Leonora Carrington
- Franz Marc
- Aleksandra Ekster
- Kazimir Malevich
- Mikhail Larionov
- Natalia Goncharova
- Judy Chicago
- Meret Oppenheim
- Marlene Dumas
- Kara Walker
- Paula Rego
- Mona Hatoum
- Eva Hesse