18 books like Joan Miró

What to read after Joan Miró — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Max Beckmann Max Beckmann · 1931 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the role of the female muse, as well as the artist's unusual ways of employing romanticizing visual motifs in landscapes and urban contexts."--BOOK JACKET Shares: Sprengel Museum Hannover, Themes, Painters, Correspondence

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, Painters, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer · 1982 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Holzer has been at the forefront of American art since her work first came to prominence in the early 1980s. She is known for text based works which may appear as spectacular electronic signs, T shirts or carved marble benches. Shares: Interviews, Themes, Criticism and interpretation

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: Sprengel Museum Hannover, Themes, Biography & Memoir

Conversations with Brando Lawrence Grobel · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Marlon Brando ha sido considerado como el mejor actor del siglo XX, el actor por antonomasia. Un ser excéntrico y extraño, pero, también, genial y extremadamente humano. En definitiva, la expresión máxima de lo que entendemos como un espíritu libre, constituido en auténtico mito del cine. Sin duda, una obra única y especial, por tratarse de un documento de primera mano en el que Marlon Brando se… Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

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, Biography & Memoir

Noa Noa Paul Gauguin · 1900 · 109p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa—a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa—the most widely known of Gauguin's writings—is reproduced here from a rare early… Shares: Painters, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Mémoires d'une portraitiste, 1755-1842 Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun · 1835 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Madame Lebrun brought out her Memoirs at the suggestion of her friend, the Princess Dolgoruki. in 1835. The authoress was bom in 1756, at Paris, where she died in 1842. She was the daughter of Louis Vig6e, an obscure portrait painter. Her baptismal name was Marie Louise Elisabeth. In 1776 Mademoiselle Vig6e was married to Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun, a notable picture dealer and critic, known… Shares: Painters, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Feininger · 1950 · 50p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Lyonel und Julia: Von der Kunst, zu lieben. Eine schicksalshafte Liebesgeschichte, erzählt in größtenteils nie veröffentlichten Briefen. Zugleich ein Zeugnis vom Arbeiten und Leben des großen Malers, pünktlich zu seinem 150. Geburtstag.Im Juli 1905 treffen Lyonel Feininger und Julia Berg im Zug Richtung Ostsee jeweils die Liebe ihres Lebens. Beide sind verheiratet, doch schnell ist ihnen klar,… Shares: Painters, Biography & Memoir

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, Biography & Memoir

Catch me a colobus Gerald Malcolm Durrell · 1972 · ★ 3.6 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Further trials and tribulations of the author; including two hectic expeditions to Africa in quest of the Colobus and to Mexico in search of the Volcano Rabbit. Shares: Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Monet Claude Monet · 1963 · ★ 4.3 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A combination of chronological texts and superb reproductions offers not only a valuable sourcebook for students and lovers of Impressionist art but also a visual and verbal documentation of a great artist and his influence upon the world. Shares: Painters, Criticism and interpretation, Biography & Memoir

Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell · 1776 · ★ 3.8 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer. Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the… Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

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, Biography & Memoir

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, Criticism and interpretation

Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1828 · ★ 4.5 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In the last years of his life. Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

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: Painters, Biography & Memoir

Vailima letters Robert Louis Stevenson · 1895 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Robert Louis Stevenson, long recognized as a master storyteller and essayist, was also a prolific letter writer. His letters, some 2800 pieces of correspondence, have been published in eight volumes. Volume VII covers the period from September 1890 to January 1893. Shares: Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

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