Books like Peter Doig
Loved Peter Doig by Richard Shiff? Here are 5 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Peter Doig →5 books
- 1The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Arc
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Giorgio VasariA foundational set of artist lives that combines biography with critical judgement of the works.
- 2Rembrandt's Eyes
Rembrandt's Eyes
Simon SchamaA wide-ranging book that reads one painter's work alongside his life and the world around him.
- 3Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
James E. B. BreslinA biography of a major American painter that treats the paintings as the centre of the story.
- 4Goya
Goya
Robert HughesA critic's account of a painter's career that moves between the works, the times and the artist's life.
- 5Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
John BergerA short and influential essay on how images, including paintings, are looked at and what they carry.
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