Marcus Graf’s “The Mind of Modern and Contemporary Art,” was published by Hayalperest Publishing House on October 23rd. The book deals with modern and contemporary art that transcends the traditional boundaries of the art world, with its various appearances, techniques and contents. Loving, understanding, seeing and questioning art are among the main topics that come […]
Pulitzer-winning New York-based art critic Jerry Saltz takes the role of the barometer of our time, drawing on his twenty years of work to simultaneously map contemporary art in his book Art is Life published in November 2022. Describing an era with all its dramatic turning points, from the cultural reset brought on by 9/11 […]
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way phenomenon was published in 1992 and took its place on the international bestseller list in the same year. The book takes millions of readers on a creative journey including many geniuses like Elizabeth Gilbert, and inspires them to build a deeper bridge of meaning between process and intention since the […]
One of Britain’s most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist’s story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as an art student at London’s Slade School […]
Susie Hodge’s book The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history – from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise male-dominated artistic movements, and the forgotten and obscured artists who are now being rediscovered and reassessed. Accessible, concise and richly […]
“In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that ‘women don’t paint very well’. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gorrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study of gender and value, Gorrill proves that there are few aesthetic differences in men and women’s painting, but that men’s art is valued at up […]
Written by writer Emre Caner, “Following the Footsteps of Lady Mihri Müşfik” tells the life story of Mihri Müşfik Hanım, one of the leading women in Turkish painting, that is built in a fiction parallel to her own life. The work, which tells the journey of the hero of the novel, Ulaş, following the footsteps […]
Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s new book “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows” published in 2021 reflects both the artist’s own past and the legacy left behind by his father, Ai Qing, one of the most prominent poets of China, over the course of 100 years.
Love… the strongest emotion the world revolves around. And it is accompanied by longing, passion, love, despair, and sometimes hope… Love is timeless and universal. Just like works of art. But what if lovers become the subject of artworks? Adam and Eve, Dido and Aeneas, Dante and Beatrice, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, John […]
On March 18, 1990, 13 paintings worth $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Based on this true story, which went down in history as the biggest art robbery in American history, Shapiro presents an exciting and elaborately woven fiction in his novel. Claire Roth, who creates perfect replicas to earn money, […]