Product Description: “Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.” ―Booklist David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebrated―he is perhaps the world’s most popular living painter...read more

From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dâenouement of their life together has entered into folklore. Two months after Gauguin arrived in Arles, Van Gogh suffered a psychological crisis. He spent mostof the rest of his life in a mental institution. Gauguin fled from Arles, and they never saw each other again. But in the brief period during which they worked together a stream of masterpieces was created within the studio they shared. Here, for the first time, the full story of their life together is told.--From publisher description.Details a three-month period in 1888 when Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh shared a small yellow house in the south of France, describing how these two master artists worked together until Van Gogh suffered a devastating psychological crisis.

A single-volume anthology of acclaimed writings on the world of fine arts ranges from ancient times to the present day as it includes essays by Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, Vasari and Freud on why the Mona Lisa smiles, and other works by art historians, critics, artists, and other notable authors. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A leading figure in twentieth-century British art, Patrick Heron has played a major role in the development of post-war abstract art. However, much of his work also reflects the influence of the extraordinary light, colour, shapes and textures to be found in the garden and landscape surrounding his house in Cornwall...read more

Product Description: Brief biographies of artists followed by CD listings.