 | Lust for Life (Plume) by Irving Stone
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.45 Compiled from Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
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 | Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Alessandro Cecchi
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $23.85 Why did so few of De Vinci's paintings survive? Eleven essays and 515 illustrations.
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 | Life With Picasso by F. Gilot
Buy used from: $23.99 This difficult man's life is almost as interesting as his painting. Written by his mistress.
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 | The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Find out how hard it was to convince Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.
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 | Masters of Art: Gauguin by Robert Goldwater
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $0.14 Van Gogh's contemporary and rival, painter of south pacific paradise.
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 | POPism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol
Buy used from: $0.97 Most visible (and chattiest) spokesman of the pop art movement.
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 | Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
Buy used from: $46.94 Rembrandt's risk taking is compared to Peter Paul Rubens' more complacent style.
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 | Jackson Pollock by Ellen G. Landau
Buy used from: $42.00 It's interesting to track how Pollock moved from a student of Thomas Hart Benton to his mature style.
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 | Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life (Phoenix Giants) by Julia Frey
Buy new: $25.51 / Used from: $6.74 Dwarfism, crazy parents. 84 photos, 50 color plates.
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 | Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian by Professor Rona Goffen
Buy used from: $22.95 It's unbelievable how competitive these guys were.
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| Henri Matisse by Pierre Schneider
Buy used from: $15.51 Picasso's principal rival. 880 illustrations, 230 in color.
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 | Claude Monet: Life and Art by Professor Paul Hayes Tucker
Buy used from: $19.99 Probably the leader of the impressionists. His different versions of the same haystack show the man's mania. I wish I were this obsessed about my work.
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| Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pisarro (Signet) by Irving Stone
Buy used from: $0.61 He gave up everything for his art. He was always borrowing money; his wife left him several times. And he was Jewish!!
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 | Georges Seurat, 1859-1891: The Master of Pointillism (Basic Art) by Hajo Duchting
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.82 The most experimental of the impressionists? What's with all those little dots?
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 | Remembering Grandma Moses by Beth Moses Hickok
Buy used from: $2.97 The most famous of the "primitive" painters. She lived to be 101!
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 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony (Basic Art) by Peter H Feist
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.99 When Renoir's hands grew too arthritic to paint, he strapped his brushes to his wrists.
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 | William Blake by Robin Hamlyn
Buy used from: $16.86 Equally proficient at painting and poetry. Representative of the thin line between genius and insanity. He saw angels.
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 | Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dal
Buy used from: $19.83 Surrealist with the goofy mustache. He lived a pretty surreal life as well.
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 | Degas: The Man and His Art (Abrams Discoveries) by Henry Loyrette
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 The most interesting of the impressionists. A great painter, not so great a human being. Anti-Jewish loner, somewhat misogynistic.
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 | Albrecht Durer and His Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist by Giulia Bartrum
Buy new: $43.87 / Used from: $36.42 The most significant artist of the Northern Renaissance. 85 color plates; 267 b&w illustrations.
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 | Norman Rockwell: A Life (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Laura Claridge
Buy used from: $1.81 Critically skewered during his lifetime, but do you know anybody who doesn't have at least one print?
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 | Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real (Basic Art) by Rolf G Renner
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Love this guy. Realist painter who influenced Pop Art.
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 | Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing (Basic Art) by Doris Krystof
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.57 Lennie Bruce of the art world. Police considered his nudes indecent and would not allow them to be exhibited.
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 | Diego Rivera by Pete Hamill
Buy used from: $5.85 Mexican muralist with revolutionary political agenda. And he had a pretty famous wife.
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 | Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern by Charles C. Eldredge
Buy used from: $9.05 Another long-lived artist. Love her skulls.
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