How To Think Like an Artist
Painters and Sculptors Who Have Changed The Way We See The World
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 25 June 2026
- ISBN 9781399422925
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 216x135 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations An 8-page plate colour section 700
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Short description:
An illuminating guide to history's most influential and inspiring artists - from Michelangelo to Frida Kahlo - and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly.
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An illuminating guide to history's most influential and inspiring artists - from Michelangelo to Frida Kahlo - and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly.
How did the greatest artists in history look at the world through new eyes? And what can we learn from the imagination, boldness and originality of their art? From the allusive frescos of the Renaissance to the cool irony of conceptual art in the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest artists of the human age.
Curator and writer Catherine Daunt interweaves the lives and loves of these great artists with moving and enlightening descriptions of their most famous and important works. This book takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through the greatest art of all time, and shows us how we can understand and interpret them.
Daunt re-examines the canon, traditionally dominated by Western, white and male artists, and makes space for major figures from other cultures and traditions, as well as those who have been traditionally overlooked because of their gender or class. Every artist in this book has made a revolutionary contribution to art, changing the way that we view, depict and navigate our world.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 Apelles: The G.O.A.T.
2 Giotto: Painting the Human Experience
3 Hieronymus Bosch: (Poor) People are Terrible
4 Leonardo da Vinci: Re-presenting the World
5 Artemisia Gentileschi: Until her Work is Seen
6 Rembrandt van Rijn: Things for Which There Are No Words
7 William Hogarth: The First YBA
8 Francisco de Goya: Producing Monsters
9 Katsushika Hokusai: Old Man Mad About Art
10 J.M.W. Turner: Painting as Poetry
11 Rosa Bonheur: Art and Animals
12 Claude Monet: Making an Impression
13 Vincent van Gogh: Feeling Deeply
14 Käthe Kollwitz: Artist as Advocate
15 Henri Matisse: Seeking Colour and Light
16 Pablo Picasso: That Guy Missed Nothing!
17 Kazimir Malevich: Nothing in Common with Nature
18 Mark Rothko: Basic Human Emotions
19 Barbara Hepworth: Every Hill and Valley Becomes a Sculpture
2o Frida Kahlo: Identity and Self
21 Emily Kam Kngwarray: Life and Landscape
22 Jacob Lawrence: History Painting
23 Andy Warhol: The Same Thing, Over and Over
24 Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration
25 Marina Abramovic: The Audience and I Become One
26 Ai Weiwei: An Artist Must Be an Activist
27 Keith Haring: Art in the City
28 The Guerrilla Girls: Collective and Covert
29 Rachel Whiteread: The Spaces In-Between
30 Wangechi Mutu: Beauty, Bodies and Optimistic Futures
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Index
