Artists

Their Lives and Works

DK, Andrew Graham Dixon, Andrew Graham Dixon

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Dorling Kindersley
30 October 2017

Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

Step into the studios of art's most iconic names

An art gallery in book form, this fascinating volume showcases the works and lives of the greatest painters and sculptors the world has ever seen.

Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock said, Every good artist paints what he is. Step into the world of over 80 artists from Giotto - the towering figure of Italy's early Renaissance - to conceptual artist Damian Hirst, and learn about their lives, loves, and sources of inspiration.

Artists shows how events of the day impacted on individuals' work. Browse fascinating accounts of each one in the context of their time, with pictures that demonstrate the full genius of their works. This comprehensive reference brings you the tumultuous lives of Hans Holbein the Younger, Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Warhol, and many others. It reveals artists you may not have heard of, and gives unexpected detail of the lives of famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci and Auguste Rodin to Frida Kahlo and Anish Kapoor.

Artists also features technique and context boxes that explore how art has evolved, and key moment timelines with essential dates.

Richly illustrated throughout, it is the ideal gift for art-lovers, young and old.

By: DK
Foreword by: Andrew Graham Dixon, Andrew Graham Dixon
Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 308mm, Width: 260mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 2.132kg
ISBN: 9780241226186
ISBN 10: 024122618X
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 30 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Foreword 2: Before 1500 1: Giotto 2: Jan van Eyck 3: Donatello 4: Masaccio 5: Piero della Francesca 6: Giovanni Bellini 7: Sandro Botticelli 8: Hieronymus Bosch 9: Directory 3: 16th Century 1: Leonardo da Vinci 2: Wen Zhengming 3: Albrecht Durer 4: Michelangelo 5: Titian 6: Raphael 7: Hans Holbein 8: Pieter Bruegel the Elder 9: El Greco 10: Directory 4: 17th Century 1: Caravaggio 2: Peter Paul Rubens 3: Artemisia Gentileschi 4: Nicolas Poussin 5: Gianlorenzo Bernini 6: Anthony van Dyck 7: Diego Velazquez 8: Kano Tan'yu 9: Rembrandt 10: Jan Vermeer 11: Wang Hui 12: Directory 5: 18th Century 1: Jeong Seon 2: Jean-Antoine Watteau 3: Giambattista Tiepolo 4: Canaletto 5: William Hogarth 6: Jean-Simeon Chardin 7: Ito Jakuchu 8: Thomas Gainsborough 9: Jean-Honore Fragonard 10: John Singleton Copley 11: Franciso de Goya 12: Jacques-Louis David 13: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun 14: Antonio Canova 15: Directory 6: 19th Century 1: Katsushika Hokusai 2: Caspar David Friedrich 3: J M W Turner 4: John Constable 5: Eugene Delacroix 6: Gustave Courbet 7: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 8: Edouard Manet 9: James McNeill Whistler 10: Edgar Degas 11: Paul Cezanne 12: Auguste Rodin 13: Claude Monet 14: Henri Rousseau 15: Ilya Repin 16: Paul Gauguin 17: Vincent van Gogh 18: Directory 7: Early 20th Century 1: Gustav Klimt 2: Edvard Munch 3: Wassily Kandinsky 4: Henri Matisse 5: Piet Mondrian 6: Constantin Brancusi 7: Paul Klee 8: Pablo Picasso 9: Edward Hopper 10: Amedeo Modigliani 11: Marc Chagall 12: Georgia O'Keeffe 13: Rene Magritte 14: Henry Moore 15: Directory 8: 1945 to present 1: Alberto Giacometti 2: Mark Rothko 3: Salvador Dali 4: Frida Kahlo 5: Francis Bacon 6: Jackson Pollock 7: Bernard Buffet 8: Andy Warhol 9: Anish Kapoor 10: Takashi Murakami 11: Directory 9: Index of artworks 10: General index 11: Acknowledgments