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Everybody is a reader. People love reading fiction and nonfiction. There are many other types of books. We will be looking at art books and fantasy/science fiction art today. Artbooks aren’t the most practical type of book. These books make excellent coffee table ornaments and are better than reading material. Continue reading to discover more about the best art books.
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Best Books About Art Ever Written
Do It: The Compendium
Hans Ulrich Obrist, the curator, enlisted more than 60 artists to provide instructions on creating and exhibiting art as part of a twenty-year-long project. These quirky, funny, and outlandish essays will inspire you to create your contemporary art. It’s exciting to read these writings and to connect with prominent contemporary artists like Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic, Jon Baldessari and Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, and Louise Bourgeois, to name a few.
100 Painters of Tomorrow
Paint lovers rejoice! According to Kurt Beers (director of Beers Contemporary), the medium is “alive and well.” Kurt Beers has set out to discover the 100 most promising new talents. The book’s artist was selected from a pool of more than 4,300 applicants by a panel that included some of the most prominent figures in concurrent art.
New York by New York
New York by New York guides the reader through the most significant periods of New York and all of its boroughs. From Manhattan and Brooklyn to Queens and Staten Island, New York By New York offers glimpses into the city’s history and development into a world-famous skyline.
The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Jackie Battenfield is the artist’s guide. The Artist’s Guide covers a broad range of topics creators may encounter during their careers. It provides a complete overview of the essential skills professional artists must have to have a successful career. The text is accompanied by a wealth of beautiful images of artwork that visually reinforce the points.
Art: The Definitive Visual Guide
This art book is stunningly beautiful with a vibrant cover and an Andrew Graham-Dixon foreword. It’s full of beautiful content and beautiful artwork. This book is perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon with a cup o’ tea as it features over 700 works of art by Picasso and Van Gogh.
Tengo un Dragon Dentro del Corazon: The Photographs of Carlota Guerrero
Barcelona-based photographer Carlota Guerrero rose to fame after her iconic portrait featuring Solange Knowles. It was the album cover of her 2016 album, A Seat at the Table. She created her signature style with images that focused on naked women in nature for many years. Tengo un Dragon Dentro del Corazon is a collection of some of her finest shots. It translates to: “I have a dragon within my heart.”
Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young
Maria Balshaw, Tate director, described Kate Bryan’s book as a ‘compelling reflection on the concept legacy.’ Bryan explores the lives and works of 30 artists who died too young. Bright Stars is packed with biographical stories that range from tragic endings to remarkable legacies. Expect to learn about legends like Vincent van Gogh and Caravaggio and undiscovered talents like Eva Hesse and Amrita Sher Gil.
Meadow Arts: the first 20 years
Meadow Arts bring concurrent art to surprising places, from forests to cathedrals. Since 2001. The organization has collaborated with various internationally renowned creators, including Rachel Whiteread, Yinka Shonibare, and others. Projects have ranged from an exhibition in a wildflower meadow to an intervention on the first iron bridge in the world. This is all being celebrated in a new book launched to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Meadow Arts.
Art Kane
This book is the first comprehensive collection of Art Kane’s photography, surprising considering Art Kane’s extensive career. It’s better late than never, and the book delivers. The work spans all aspects of Art Kane’s diverse oeuvre, including fashion, travel, and, of course, his nudes. You can’t miss his portraits of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and countless others.
Royal Academy of Dance: Celebrating 100 Years
Dance is often neglected as an art form. This book will help to change that. It contains over 150 images from archival archives and covers everything choreography-related. It also reveals some of the most exciting figures in the RAD’s history, including the stories of Margot Fonteyn, Darcey Bussell, and Rudolf Nureyev.
Rothko: The Colour Field Paintings
This collection features fifty large-scale Rothko artworks that show his profound abstract expressionism. They are from the American master’s color field period (1949-1970). Essays accompany these iconic images by Christopher Rothko and Janet Bishop, curator of sculpture and painting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This gift is perfect for someone who has been a long-time fan of Rothko’s work or for someone looking to learn more about Rothko.
The Wes Anderson Collection
The Wes Anderson Collection’s third volume features the best art from “Bad Dads,” which showcases artwork inspired by Wes Anderson films. Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, has curated “Bad Dads,” an annual group exhibition that has featured more than 400 works from all over the globe. These artworks include paintings, sculptures, and limited-edition screenprints. They also vary in style, making it a lively and varied show every year.
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting by Christopher Neve
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Robert MacFarlane, the author, describes this publication as “A minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought using dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences … I’m delighted it’s back in print in a new edition.”
Styles, Schools, and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art by Amy Dempsey
Best modern art books
Amy Dempsey’s Styles Schools and Movements: An Essential Encyclopaedic Guide To Modern Art is designed to introduce readers to “one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in art history.” This collection of essays highlights the best work of the past 150 years. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading. This will help you get on the right track to art history success. If you are interested in the Top 10 Best Art History Books of All Time Review 2022, continue reading.
Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein
This expanded and updated edition focuses on the main themes and subjects that Grayson Perry has dealt with throughout his career. The artist provides commentary on each piece. Two chapters have been added. One covers his 2015 house built with Living Architecture. The other is about identity politics.
Grayson’s Art Club was created by Perry on Channel 4 at April’s end to bring together the nation through collective creativity locked down. Philippa, Perry’s wife and a psychotherapist wanted to unleash the creative potential of people through art. It also showed their commitment to the community outside the art world. These books help to alleviate the disappointment caused by gallery and museum closures.
Armin Mueller-Stahl: Rockets to the Moon edited by Frank-Thomas Gaulin Published by Hatje Cantz
This project-based book presents the visual art, poetry, and poetry of the well-known German actor. It combines music with expressive drawings to create a powerful, all-encompassing work of art. The lyrics were composed in the mid-1960s. Mueller-Stahl protests against the absurdity of the arms race in strongly rhythmic, onomatopoeic imitation words (such as buzz and hiss).
Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom Published by Phaidon
This lavish production features a detailed introduction by Anna Pavord, a gardening expert. It explores the many ways artists and image-makers have used floral motifs throughout history. The flower is ideal for Christmas escape and appeals to both artists and designers, and art historians.
The book includes large-scale images and accessible entries that an international panel has selected: museum curators, botanists, horticulturalists, and art historians. It contains works by both well-known and lesser-known creators and image-makers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Cecil Beaton, Henri Matisse, and David Hockney.
Derek Jarman: Protest! by Seán Kissane and Karim Rehmani-White
This vital publication features previously unpublished images from Derek Jarman’s archive and works from every stage of Jarman’s career as a filmmaker, painter and gardener, activist, and writer. Jarman’s distinctive voice is evident throughout. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Jarman’s work and life. After an appeal by Art Fund, PS3.5m was raised to purchase Prospect Cottage in Dungeness (Kent). This year it was purchased for the nation. Jarman transformed the cottage into an art piece in its own right, and it was where he did some of his most memorable work.
Coveted: Art and Illustration in High Jewelry by Melanie Grant
This book is luxurious and covers a luxury topic. It makes a perfect gift because it explores the blurred line between fashion, jewelry, and art. The book profiles over 70 international designers, including Bvlgari and Wallace Chan, and Hemmerle, in China, India, and the UK. It also discusses their conceptual approaches, the provenance of materials and design, and how they work. The entry into a rare world is what Coveted means.
The Art Book
Phaidon’s Art Book features text written by critics, curators, artists, and academics. It also includes full-page photographs. This iconic anthology is “a valuable reference as well as an eye-opener.” More than 600 creators, from medieval times to modern times, are featured in this new edition. The anthology uses an alphabetical format, offering readers a comprehensive guide to art history’s most prolific and influential creators from all periods, schools, styles, and periods.
David Opdyke’s This Land: An Epic Postcard Mural on the Future of a Country in Ecological Peril
A book with the same name was derived from this work. This Landis broke into sections, allowing the reader to examine the postcards and fully immerse themselves in the climate change terrors awaiting them.
Maya Wiley, a lawyer, professor, and New York City mayoral candidate, contributes an afterword. This helps to establish the work’s political context but also calls for action. She invokes “determination” to stop Opdyke’s visions of the end times from becoming a reality. The great book comes in an intelligent dust jacket, which unfolds to give the reader an exact reproduction of Opdyke’s terrifying and sometimes even humorous writing.
Abstract Art: A Global History by Pepe Karmel
It was drawing on Huaisu (8th-century Chinese Buddhist monk) and Madiha Omar (wife of an Iraqi diplomat, who exhibited in Washington DC, 1949), on the other. It is an exciting, complex tour de force. This critical survey includes works by well-known figures like Joan Miro and Jackson Pollock and pieces by lesser-known artists like Wu Guanzhong and Hilma Af Klint.
Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World
Disrupted Realism, the first book that examines the work of contemporary painters who challenge and reshape the tradition of Realism, is also the first to do so. It helps art collectors, artists, and art lovers to understand and approach this new phenomenon. The book features 38 works by artists whose drawings reflect the subjects of modern experience. John Seed, a widely published blogger and author who believes we are the “most distracted society in history,” selected artists he considers visionaries in this emerging movement.
The Fife Arms by Dominic Bradbury
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This is the story of how a neglected building in the Scottish Highlands was brought back to life. It’s just a stone’s throw away from Balmoral Castle. Iwan and Manuela Wirth were co-founders of Hauser & Wirth. They transformed each room to tell the story about a person, event, or theme connected to their Highland location.
Matisse by Volkmar Essers
Henri Matisse’s (1869-1954) work reflects a belief in simple forms and the power of bright colors. Matisse is best known for his drawings, but he also did the drawing, sculpture, and lithography. Matisse was also a master of fluid draftsmanship and bold color, drawing, sculpture, lithography, stained glass, and collage.
The Impossible Collection of Warhol
Each page of this book is an original work of art in its own right. It was hand-bound using traditional techniques, printed on art-quality papers and has the artist’s unique stamp. An art book collection of art books is incomplete without Warhol. His explosive Pop Art and sharp commentary about advertising and celebrity culture are well-known around the globe and still relevant today. Eric Shiner, a Warhol expert who was also the Andy Warhol Museum Director, curated this limited edition of the Assouline Ultimate Collection. It contains the 100 most important works that best represent the artist’s extensive oeuvre.
Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business
Drag is a celebration of the significant historical and current influence on the pop culture of drag and its performers. Drag artists have now sashayed their way to snatch the crowns as the Queens of mainstream entertainment. Through informative and witty essays chronicling over 100 years of drag, readers will embark on a Priscilla-like journey through pop culture, from television shows like The Milton Berle Show, Bosom Buddies, and RuPaul’s Drag Race, films like Some Like It Hot, To Wong Foo.
Open Studio: Do-It-Yourself Art Projects by Contemporary Artists by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, Amanda Benchley
Best contemporary art books
Open Studio is a companion to Grayson’s Art Club. It combines a fascination with the creative spaces behind exhibitions with a desire to find a creative outlet. Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, Amanda Benchley, and Casey Kelbaugh, a photographer, show readers how to create their work using various styles and methods. There are templates and patterns available.
Open Studio is somewhere between a rainy day craft book and an individual masterclass. It will be an excellent resource for parents and children during lockdown this year. This book makes contemporary art accessible and easy to understand and encourages creativity among readers of all ages.
The Collins Big Book of Art: From Cave Art to Pop Art
The Collins Big Book of Art provides a great introduction to the art world for people with little or no knowledge. This book covers the entire history of art, from cave paintings to Impressionism to Pop Art. Each piece includes more than 1,200 pieces of art from all over the globe. It is labeled with its date, country, title, artist, materials, size, and current location.
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
There is already an extensive bibliography about Andy Warhol, but Blake Gopnik’s study adds value to the existing literature.
You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation
“There are more than 50 creative prompts available for artists (or those who are artistically inclined). Take the title of the book as an affirmation and get started—fast Company. More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts will help expand your world and inspire you to make extraordinary new things. Sarah Urist Green, the curator, left her office in the basement of an art exhibition to visit artists and ask them for prompts that correspond to their work methods.
Reading Room
Edited by David Richardson (dispersed holdings, 2020)
This small volume describes a reading experiment, both in practice and performance. It also documents reflection and research. The artist-run platform and publishing venture dispersed their holdings and invited writers and artists to participate in their “reading residency.” The Bowery apartment space was transformed into a reading den where readers could use the space and time as they pleased.
Zadok Ben David: Human Nature
This comprehensive monograph covers the work of Zadok Benjamin-David, which spans 20 years. It also includes four significant installations and outdoor works by one of the most respected contemporary sculptors in the world. The book includes essays by Felicity Fenner (foreword), Yael Guilat (foreword), John McDonald (foreword), and Fumio Nago. This beautiful book contains fascinating stories, including ‘Evolution and Theory’ (1995) and ‘Blackfield’ (2007). It also includes a psychological installation with thousands of flowers.
Others Best Art Publications Considered
- John Elderfield’s Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings (Princeton University Art Museum, 2020)
- World of Art Series: Latin American Art Since 1900 by Edward Lucie-Smith/
- The Short Story of Art by Susie Hodge
- The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey/
- Colored People Time (Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2020)
- Cecily Brown by Courtney J Martin, Jason Rosenfeld, and Francine Prose
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Conclusion
No matter if you’re a fan or a regular reader of the best books of art, your library should have a few. Everyone can benefit from more art in their life. You will be a blessing to your soul. I hope you find the following list helpful. Thank you for reading.
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