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, […]
Leonardo da Vinci produced two of the world’s most famous paintings: Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But in his own mind he was a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he conducted innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weapons. The iconic […]
After the End of Art book is based on a speech given by the American art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto as a part of A.W. Mellon Seminars. The mimetic tradition based on the fact that art is a representation of reality, has been abandoned and the meaning and purpose of art has begun […]
Art historian and author Hal Foster focuses on post-war writers and artists’ search for a new foundation in art in his book Brutal Aesthetics. Foster explores the effects of the World War II, the genocide and the atomic bomb in art, through the works of artists between 1940 and 1960. Inspired by the notion that […]
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