 | Anselm Kiefer by Daniel Arasse
Buy used from: $90.00 obsessed with for about 6 months-- incredible artist
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 | Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum by Brooke Davis Anderson
Buy used from: $85.77 I purchased another larger Darger book from Amazon, without knowing anything about him, and he blew my world open. He is the doppelganger of Joseph Cornell.
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 | Victor Brauner by Brad Epley
Buy used from: $53.35 An early Surrealist artist who I think doesn't get enough respect.
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 | Between Lives: An Artist and Her World by Dorothea Tanning
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $1.23 Was married to Max Ernst - and her early artwork is astounding.
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 | Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection by Paul Klee
Buy used from: $68.96 The older I grow and the more I understand art; the more Klee's paintings become masterpieces.
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 | Art Brut: The Origins of Outsider Art by Lucienne Peiry
Buy used from: $18.50 A huge influence on me--This is also a fantastic book.
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 | Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture) by Lindsay Blair
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $9.95 very good book. gets into a few odd stories about Cornell. but aren't they all?
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 | Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer (California Studies in the History of Art Discovery Series) by Therese Lichtenstein
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $24.00 I was also obsessed by Bellmer for about 6 months.
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 | Coronation of Sesostris by Patricia Waters
Buy used from: $129.99 Cy Twombly-- hmmm, don't know what to say-his stuff is fantastic!!!
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 | The Essential Joseph Beuys by Alain Borer
Buy used from: $120.00 Not enough is shown about his drawings, which are fantastic and mythic.
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 | John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind by Kathan Brown
Buy new: $35.91 / Used from: $45.00 Huge influence on music and art--there is never silence.
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 | Writings of the Vienna Actionists by Brus
Buy used from: $27.49 Art is blood
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 | Yves Tanguy and Surrealism by Susan Davidson
Buy used from: $171.00 Ahhh, Yves -- This is a fantastic book-- It is great to see the growth from begining to end.
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 | Jean Michel Basquiat by Richard Marshall
Buy used from: $36.79 Fantatic book. Got into Jean Michel through the excellent movie about him.
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 | Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
Buy used from: $90.00 Matta painted the cosmos
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 | Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.25 Had this for years and years--It really influenced me when I was younger.
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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: $33.17 Hmm, don't know what to say about Durer. fantastic stuff.
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 | Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis Works From the Prinzhorn Collection by Laurent Busine
Buy used from: $42.99 Another great book-the start of Art Brut/Outsider Art begins here.
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 | The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (2 Volumes in 1) by Arturo Schwarz
Buy used from: $295.00 Duchamp - As with Picasso You must know the rules of art- to break the rules of art.
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 | Catalogue Raisonne Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Taschen double jumbo series) (English and German Edition) by Wieland Schmied
For me Hundertwasser is number #1 in my list. His life is inspiring.
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 | Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery (Building Studies, 5) by Elizabeth Burns Gamard
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $11.49 Haven't read this book, but remember reading about Schwitter's and becoming fasinated by his sculpture his built I think in his studio. Hope to read this book very soon!!!
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 | Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.84 I just finished this book- I think it is a must read for all artists.
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 | Tapies: The Complete Works, Volume 4: 1976-1981 by Anna Agusti
Buy used from: $121.98 Have just gotten into Tapies. I would highly recommend it.
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 | JEAN DUBUFFET 1943-1963 by DEMETRION JT
Buy used from: $33.00 Gave half of his life to the acceptace of other artists. Dubuffet has been looked over by a lot of artists today- go and study him.
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 | Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion (Pegasus Library) by Klaus Albrecht Schroeder
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.72 Enjoyed this book a lot, One of the better Schiele books I have seen, even though it is quite short.
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