Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity.
From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats, creative hubs, lifelong homes, and holiday escapes of key artistic figures. Author Susie Hodge introduces readers to each artist's life and work, placing the significance of the home at the heart of their practice before exploring how each residency both reflected and inspired the artist's creative output.
By delving into their homes – the architecture, interiors, the lives lived there, and the work created there – we can see these artists' private spaces as reflections of their artistic output. For these inspiring people, homes are places where the boundaries between work, creativity and daily life are indistinct – they are as much as reflection of their artistic intention as the great artworks that made their name.
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780711269453
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780711269453
- File size: 31981 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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July 10, 2023
Art historian Hodge (The Short Story of Art) takes readers on an illuminating tour of the homes and studios of 30 famous artists from the 19th century to the present. Combining brief biographical sketches with lush photos, Hodge spotlights a wide array of artists, including those whose environs were inseparable from their work (Claude Monet and his water lily pond in Giverny, France); those whose spaces became famous during their lifetimes (painter Frederic Leighton and the opulent London home where he showcased his work in the 19th century to thousands of visitors); and those intimately involved in their houses’ design, such as key arts and crafts movement influence William Morris, whose “Red House” served as an early example of the style. Naturally, artists’ spaces often reflected the subject and interests of their inhabitants: James Ensor decorated his townhouse with gaudy masks and other curiosities, and Rosa Bonheur’s 15th-century chateau (where she entertained the likes of Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III) was filled with taxidermy. Taken together, Hodge’s selections prove that “artists’ homes are literally where art meets life.” Art aficionados will be enthralled. -
June 10, 2024
Hodge (How Art Can Change Your Life) offers glimpses of the homes of 19th- and 20th-century artists--Monet, Picasso, O'Keeffe, and many others--and how these spaces reflected or refuted their owners' aesthetic sensibilities. From the frugal or minimalist to the aggressively artistic and the wildly cluttered, these homes and designs show an intimate side of the artists. The book uses photographs of the exterior and interior features of their houses as entry points into biographical details, some full of well-known information, and others more personal and rooted in the homes themselves. Art historians will probably not find much, if anything, that's new in these pages, and there are only a few images of the artists themselves, but the book may inspire readers to think of the artists' lives in new ways, lived off the canvas. VERDICT As resplendent and visually sumptuous as readers might expect, this would make a lovely gift for fans of art museums and design. Best for general readers interested in the material worlds and creative influences of artists.--Emily Bowles
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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