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1Lives of the Artists
Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari
A classic collection of artist biographies that gives the same sense of painters' lives set against their work.
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2The Story of Art
The Story of Art
E. H. Gombrich
A widely read general history of art that places individual painters within larger movements.
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3Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
A short, influential study of how images are looked at, useful for thinking about reproductions of paintings.
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4Van Gogh (Essential Art)
Van Gogh (Essential Art)
James Smith
A full-length biography of a painter that connects his life to the development of his art.
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5Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Sue Prideaux
A biography of another Nordic painter that examines his work in relation to his personal life and the period.
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6Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Roxana Robinson
A biography of a modernist woman painter that follows her career and the choices behind her style.
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7Women, Art and Power and Other Essays
Women, Art and Power and Other Essays
Linda Nochlin
Essays on why women artists have been overlooked and how art history can be reread with that in mind.
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8Modigliani
Modigliani
Meryle Secrest
A biography of an early twentieth-century painter that places his work within the Paris art world around him.
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