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BIOGRAPHY
7 REECE MEWS:
FRANCIS BACON'S STUDIO
John Edwards / Perry Ogden
FRANCIS BACON:
AN ANATOMY OF AN ENIGMA
Michael Peppiatt
GILDED GUTTER LIFE OF FRANCIS BACON
Daniel Farson
VANISHED SPLENDORS
Balthus with Alain Vircondelet
"M"- THE MAN WHO BECAME CARAVAGGIO
Peter Robb
LEONARDO DA VINCI:
Flights Of The Mind
Charles Nicholl
DE KOONING:
An American Master
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
THE QUEEN OF PEACE ROOM
Magie Dominic
PAUL GAUGUIN: A LIFE
David Sweetman
ARSHILE GORKY:
His Life and Work
Hayden Herrera
GOYA
Robert Hughes
THE UNKNOWN MATISSE
Hilary Spurling
MATISSE THE MASTER
Hilary Spurling
THREE WORLDS OF MICHELANGELO
James Beck
THE ORIENTALISTS
Kristian Davies
DREAMING WITH HIS EYES OPEN:
A LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA
Patrick Marnham
RODIN: A BIOGRAPHY
Frederic V. Grunfeld
RODIN ON ART AND ARTISTS:
CONVERSATIONS WITH PAUL GSELL
Dover Publications
THE LIVES OF THE MUSES:
NINE WOMEN AND THE ARTISTS THEY INSPIRED
Francine Prose
TURNER: A LIFE
James Hamilton

FOR CHILDREN 9-13
A SINGLE SHARD
Linda Sue Park

FOR CHILDREN 7-10
CHARLOTTE IN GIVERNY
Joan MacPhail Knight, Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

FOR CHILDREN 10+
CHASING VERMEER
Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

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Words to live by

TRASHED

DUMB BOOK AWARD

PORTRAIT OF A KILLER Patricia Cornwall

SECRET KNOWLEDGE David Hockney

THE BLACK PAINTINGS OF GOYA Juán José Junquera

 

 

 

“There are worse crimes than burning books.
One is not reading them.” – Joseph Brodsky

ART HISTORY, CRITICISM
AND TECHNIQUE
ANECDOTES OF MODERN ART
Hall and Wykes (Editors)
ATLAS OF HUMAN ANATOMY FOR THE ARTIST
Stephen Rogers Peck
CULTURE OF COMPLAINT
Robert Hughes
DRAWING LESSONS FROM THE GREAT MASTERS
Robert Beverly Hale
GOYA'S BLACK PAINTINGS:
Truth and Reason in Light and Liberty
Priscilla E. Muller
MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING
Ross King
NOTHING IF NOT CRITICAL
Robert Hughes
RESCUING DA VINCI
Robert M. Edsel, Lynn H. Nicholas
and Edmund P. Pillsbury
SISTER WENDY'S STORY OF PAINTING
Sister Wendy Becket
TALES FROM THE ART CRYPT
Richard Feigen
THE ANATOMY COLORING BOOK
Kapit and Elson
THE ART BOOK
Phaidon (Publishers)
THE ARTIST'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO FACIAL EXPRESSION
Gary Faigin
THE ARTIST'S HANDBOOK OF MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
Ralph Meyer
THE ART OF ENCAUSTIC PAINTING:
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION IN THE ANCIENT
MEDIUM OF PIGMENTED WAX
Joanne Mattera
THE MAN WHO TASTED SHAPES
Richard Cytowic
THE MATERIALS OF THE ARTIST
Max Doerner
THE RAPE OF EUROPA
Lynn H. Nicholas
THE RAPE OF THE MASTERS
Roger Kimball
THE STORY OF ART
E. H. Gombrich

THE TRIUMPH OF MODERNISM:
The Art World, 1985 to 2005
Hilton Kramer
THE UNDRESSED ART
Peter Steinhart
THEY STILL DRAW PICTURES:
Children's Art in Wartime
from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo
Anthony L. Geist and Peter N. Carroll
WHAT IS A MASTERPIECE
Kenneth Clark

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ART RELATED
LITERARY FICTION
CHASING CÉZANNE
Peter Mayle

LEONARDO'S SHADOW
Christopher Grey
LONGING
J. D. Lang
MONSTRUARY
Julián Ríos
THE BIRTH OF VENUS
Sarah Dunant

THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE
John Banville
THE COLLECTOR
John Fowles
THE FLANDERS PANEL
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARING
Tracy Chevalier
THE LADY AND THE UNICORN
Tracy Chevalier
THE MUSIC LESSON
Kathrine Weber
THE NOTEBOOKS OF DON RIGOBERTO
Mario Vargas Llosa
THE ARTIST'S WIFE
Max Phillips
THE SERPENT GARDEN
Judith Merkle Riley
STONE VIRGIN
Barry Unsworth
THE PARTNERSHIP
Barry Unsworth
THE UNDERPAINTER
Jane Urquhart
THE VIVISECTOR
Patrick White
TULIP FEVER
Deborah Moggach
WHAT’S BRED IN THE BONE
Robertson Davies

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"I would like to write the way I do my paintings, that is as fantasy takes me,
as the moon dictates, and I come up with a title long afterward." - Paul Gauguin