To continue our series of Art History books and Art Novels, our Art History tutor Stuwart Roberts (Stu) has come up with another three must reads of three well known artists. Georgia O’Keeffe, Frieda Kahol and Artemisia Gentileschi. If you are looking for stocking fillers, you have an arty person for your Secret Santa or an art lover in your family…. we might have the perfect book for you to buy them here. Christmas is sorted!!
Georgia O’Keeffe
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In this story Elizabeth, mother, wife and intellectual, follows her idol, artist Georgia O’Keeffe, along a path to herself. A powerful novel about a woman’s relation to her body, diving into contemporary controversies about privacy and consent.
“Queen of the Owls is a powerful novel about a woman’s relation to her body, diving into contemporary controversies about privacy and consent. A ‘must-read’ for fans of Georgia O’Keeffe and any woman who struggles to find her true self hidden under the roles of sister, mother, wife, and colleague.” Barbara Claypole White, best-selling author of The Perfect Son and The Promise Between Us
“Obsession, naivety, seduction, desire, self-deception, love, and courage–all emotions subtly and powerfully revealed in this story of Elizabeth, mother, wife and intellectual, as she follows her idol, artist Georgia O’Keeffe, along a path to herself. A thought-provoking novel that readers will want to savor and share.”
–Jenni Ogden, author of Nautilus Gold Award-winning A Drop in the Ocean
Frida Kahlo
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Frida’s Bed by Slavenka Drakulic is a beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo’s life. Just days before her death in 1954
Amazons Description – “A few days before Frida Kahlo’s death in 1954, she wrote in her diary…”I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return”. Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo’s chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In Frida’s Bed, Slavenka Drakulic explores the inner life of one of the world’s most influential female artists, skilfully weaving Frida’s memories into descriptions of her paintings, producing a meditation on the nature of chronic pain and creativity. With an intriguing subject whose unusual life continues to fascinate, this poignant imagining of Kahlo’s thoughts during her final hours by another daringly original and uncompromising creative talent will attract readers of literary fiction and art lovers alike”.
Artemisia Gentileschi
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From extraordinary highs – patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo – to rape by her father’s colleague and torture by the Inquisition.
This novel follows the life-long struggles for acceptance by the artistic Establishment and betrayal by the men she loved. Artemisia was a bold and brilliant painter and a woman who lived as she wanted, and paid a high price.
Praise for GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE:
‘This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket…It is an illuminating meditation on the nature of art….This beautifully imagined and written book…is a work of art itself’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Intelligent, searching and unusual….. filled with luminous moments’ ….New York Times Book Review.
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