Books about art that are reviewed in this blog
Novels:
- Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse: Brought up in a mediaeval monastery by the intellectual Narziss, Goldmund runs away to become an itinerant, a lover and a woodcarver. A comparison of the Apollonian versus the Dionysian impulses.
- Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale: Exploring the life, and the family, of a Cornish artist, this novel as structured as if it were the notes accompanying a retrospective exhibition of her work.
- This Good Book by Iain Hood: a Scottish artist struggles to paint a crucifixion.
- My name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok: the artistic impulse is awakened in a young lad raised in a strict Jewish community.
- The Gift of Asher Lev: the sequel to My Name is Asher Lev: the mature artist has to make a sacrifice in order to find his artistic mojo again.
- The Masterpiece by Emile Zola: Zola wrote this novel about his friends, the Impressionists ... and some of them never spoke to him again.
- The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham: a novel based partly on the life of Paul Gauguin.
- Contrapposto: A young American boy struggles to learn how to be an artist and then struggles to be recognised.
- We Live Here Now by C D Rose: This winner of the Goldsmith's Prize is an episodic novel about (?) conceptual art
- The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer: the fictionalised biography of Lee Miller, focusing on the three years she spent in Paris as the lover of photographer Man Ray.
- Contrapposto by Dave Eggers: a kunstlerroman about a young American's struggle to become an artist of classical life portraiture.
Biographies of Artists and History of Art:
- Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon
- The Story of Art by E H Gombrich
- Van Gogh in Arles by Alfred Nemeczek
- Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
- Michelangelo and the Pope's Celing by Ross King
- The Judgement of Paris by Ross King
Books about art:
- The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
- Enduring Creation by Nigel Spivey
- How Art Made the World by Nigel Spivey
- Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
- Think Like an Artist by Will Gompertz
- 50 Art Ideas you really need to know by Susie Hodge
- The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Impressionists
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