18 books like Jenny Holzer

What to read after Jenny Holzer — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Van Gogh Federico Zeri · 1937 · ★ 4.1 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They inclu Shares: Themes, Exhibitions, Artists, Criticism and interpretation

Joan Miró Joan Miró · 1937 · ★ 4.2 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "This book takes the reader on a journey through Joan Miro's world of images. It includes work from all phases of the artist's career, from the early paintings in the style of poetic realism, via the playfully lyrical pictures of the 1920s and 1930s, to the colourful works of his later years. Stages in the journey are marked by photographs taken at the time by Miro's fellow Catalan Joaquim Gomis,… Shares: Interviews, Themes, Criticism and interpretation

Robert Gober Robert Gober · 1990 · 74p · ≈ 2h · Moderate An exhibition focusing on the artist's current work specifically created for the space. There are also several essays on the this work. Shares: Artists' books, Exhibitions, Art

Gerhard Richter Richter, Gerhard · 1971 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In Erinnerung ist das "Streifen-Bild", das im Eingangsbereich von Richters grosser Retrospektive "Panorama" in der Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin hing. Diesem jüngsten Werkzyklus ist erstmals eine Museumsausstellung gewidmet mit 12 neuen Arbeiten, die bis zu zehn Meter lang sind sowie sechs grossen, zweiteiligen Lack-Glas-Bildern aus diesem Jahr im Format 100 x 200 cm und einer grossräumigen,… Shares: Artists' books, Exhibitions, Art, Criticism and interpretation

Into the Kill Zone David Klinger · 2004 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers who have shot people in the course of their duties, Into the Kill Zone presents firsthand accounts of… Shares: Interviews, Psychology

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo · 1995 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Das Buch nimmt erstmals in konzentrierter Form die städtischen Projekte von Christo und Jeanne-Claude in den Fokus. Vorgestellt werden anhand von vorbereitenden Zeichnungen, Collagen und Modellen zahlreiche, teils unrealisierte und wenig bekannte Arbeiten aus dem Frühwerk der Künstler, u.a. die geplante Verhüllung mehrerer New Yorker Wolkenkratzer, sowie die späteren publikumswirksamen… Shares: Interviews, Exhibitions, Criticism and interpretation, Psychology

Max Ernst Max Ernst · 1956 · ★ 4.1 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Max Ernst: Life and Work draws on an unprecedented collection of source material, much of it published here for the first time, to present a compelling portrait of the artist's life and an intellectual portrait of an entire period. These letters and notes by friends and contemporaries provide insight into the reception of his oeuvre, illustrate Ernst's own texts and shed light on his… Shares: Themes, Exhibitions, Art

Paul Klee Paul Klee · 1930 · ★ 3.8 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Challenging An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he attempted to capture the organic and harmonic nature of painting by alluding to other artistic mediums such as poetry, literature,… Shares: Themes, Criticism and interpretation, Psychology

Picasso William S. Lieberman · 1932 · ★ 3.6 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Text describes several works from Picasso's Blue and Rose periods. Ten color plates, including one on the front cover, are included. Shares: Exhibitions, Art, Criticism and interpretation

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch · 1927 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expressiveren Stil. In dieser Zeit entsteht das Meisterwerk Alpha und Omega, eine grafische Mappe bestehend aus 22 lithographischen Blättern und einem gedruckten Prosagedicht. Zusammen ergeben sie eine… Shares: Exhibitions, Art, Criticism and interpretation

Henry Moore David Sylvester · 1934 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This seventh and final volume in the complete catalogue of Henry Moore's drawings provides a key to the material contained in the other six volumes. It gives a consolidated version of all the reference apparatus contained in each of the other volumes (index, concordance and list of exhibitions), enabling the user to track down any particular drawing from any period or volume by means of its… Shares: Interviews, Art

Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman · 1987 · 55p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Includes rarely seen works from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s, including work created while Sherman was an art student at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York (1972-76). These early works from 1975-1978 demonstrate Sherman’s conceptual approach to photography and foretell the career that would launch her into the art world in the late 1970s. On view, a grid of twenty-three hand… Shares: Interviews, Exhibitions

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti · 1955 · ★ 4.1 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 250 sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre. The book underscores the… Shares: Exhibitions, Art, Criticism and interpretation

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka · 1947 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Bei Jahrhunderten der Literatur ist es unvermeidlich, dass einige durch das Raster fallen. Wir jagen gemeinfreie Werke und restaurieren sie, damit sie der Welt nicht verloren gehen. Wer sind wir? Wir sind Cairn Press. Unser Hintergrund liegt in Design, Verlagswesen, Typografie und Technologie. Diese Fähigkeiten treiben unsere Mission voran, öffentlich zugängliche eBooks von höchster Qualität zu… Shares: Exhibitions, Criticism and interpretation

Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori Giorgio Vasari · 1759 · ★ 3.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Demanding In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose… Shares: Artists, Art

Matisse Henri Matisse · 1943 · ★ 4.2 · 45p · ≈ 1h · Challenging In Jazz, Matisse composes with scissors what he could no longer paint with brushes. From this limitation emerged a new kind of freedom — a whirlwind of shapes and colours, a dance that is both joyful and profound. Page after page, he cuts, paces, invents a visual language of striking intensity, somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Conceived as an artist's book, Jazz brings together the… Shares: Exhibitions, Criticism and interpretation, Psychology

Le Corbusier Le Corbusier · 1938 · ★ 3.8 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society… Shares: Exhibitions, Criticism and interpretation

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol · 1967 · ★ 3.4 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "This extraordinarily revealing diary"—now a Netflix series—"paints a more penetrating portrait of our time's Glitterati Era than any of Andy's . . . canvases" (Forbes). This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American culture. Filled with shocking observations about the lives, loves, and careers… Shares: Themes, Criticism and interpretation

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