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Artists : inspiring stories of their lives and works / written by Susie Hodge ; illustrated by Jessamy Hawke.

Hodge, Susie, 1960- (author.). Hawke, Jessamy, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"Extraordinary reference book of over eighty famous painters, their lives, their loves, and their iconic paintings"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780744056679
ISBN: 0744056675
Physical Description: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : DK/Penguin Random House, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Before 1800 -- 1800 to 1900 -- After 1900.

Formatted Contents Note:

Rock art -- Thutmose -- Timarete & Irene -- Myron & Phidias -- Ancient sculpture -- Iaia -- Araniko -- Painting people -- Shen Zhou -- Albrect Dürer -- Michelangelo & Raphael -- Renaissance -- Shin Saimdang -- Artemisia Gentileschi -- Rembrandt Van Rijn -- Katsushika Hokusai -- Cartoons -- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard -- Rosa Bonheur -- Harriet Powers -- Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel -- Edmonia Lewis -- Vincent Van Gogh -- Georges Seurat -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Impressionism -- Louis Wain -- Hilma of Klint -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Abstract art -- Margaret Macdonald Mackintonsh & Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Henri Matisse -- Piet Mondrian -- Paula Modersohn-Becker -- Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp -- Clementine Hunter -- Folk art -- Pablo Picasso & Lyubov Popova -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Collage -- Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid -- Gerda Taro -- Louise Bourgeois -- Art materials -- Jackson Pollock -- Salvador Dali -- Equipment -- Frida Kahlo -- Amrita Sher-Gil -- Charlotte Salomon -- Betye Saar -- Andy Warhol -- Activist art -- Yayoi Kusama -- Marisol -- Nam June Paik -- Ester Mahlangu -- Doris Salcedo -- Yinka Shonibare -- Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Banksy -- Art over time -- More artists.