o Books for Art Lovers

Book Suggestions for Art Book Groups

A Bigger Message; Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford

A Blazing World by Siri Hustveldt
A Broken Hallelujah, Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard
Cohen by Liel Leibovitz

A of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Agony and Ecstasy, by Oliver Stone
Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Melissa Muller, Reinhard

Piechocki and Alice Herz-Sommer

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

American Mirror: The life and art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah

Solomon
Andy Warhol was a Hoarder; Inside the minds of historys greatest

personalities by Claudia Kalb

Architectures Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
by Hugh Howard

Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Jan Garden Castro

Art Lover, a biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill

Artful Dodger, by Nick Bantock

At Work by Annie Leibovitz

Bad Boy; My Life on and off the Canvas by Eric Fischl

Banksy You are an Acceptable level of Threat by Gary Shove

Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste

Becoming Mona Lisa, Donald Sassoon

Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Boundaries by Maya Linn

Brancusi by Eric Shanes Biography

Breaking Ground; an Immigrants Journey from Poland to Ground Zero by

Daniel Libeskind
Brunelleschis Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King

Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier

Caveat Emptor by Ken Perenyi

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Biography by Bert Chernow

Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie
Collector of Skies: Yoko Ono by Nell Beram and Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky
Color, a natural history of the palette by Victoria Finlay
Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

Deborah Butterfield by Robert Gordon

Deep Play by Diane Ackerman
DeKooning; An American master by Mark Stevens
Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
Discover Your Genius by Michael J. Gelb

Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel; A Biography by Judith and Neil Morgan

Duchamp, by Calvin Tomkins

Eat, Love, Pray, Elizabeth Gilbert
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination by Deborah Lyons and

Adam D. Weinberg
Eight Girls Taking Pictures, by Whitney Otto
Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian

Peper, and Anna Deavere Smith by Cherise Smith

Enclosures by Andy Goldsworthy
Eye of the Beholder; Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwerhock and the

reinvention of seeing by Laura Snyder

Fire by Dale Chihuly
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and

the Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne

Francis Bacon by Wieland Schmied
Frank O. Gehry by Laurence B. Cholleet
French Riviera and its Artists: Art, Literature, Love and Life on the Cote
dAzur by John Baxter

Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
From My Land to the Planet by Salvador Salgado

Genus of Place: The Life of Fredrick Law Olmstead

Giacometti, a Biography by James Lord
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, a novel by Susan Vreeland
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Gordon Parks: A Poet and His Camera by Gordon Parks

Group f. 64 by Mary Street Alinder

Hanging Man; The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Barnaby Martin

Henry Moore; My ideas, inspiration and life as an artist by Henry Moore &
John Hedgecoe

Hokusai by Sarah Thompson

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann

How to Be Both: a Novel by Ali Smith

I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira

Imagine by Jonah Lehrer

In Love With Art; Francoise Moulys Adventures in Comics with Art

Spiegelman by Jeet Heer

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
In Sunlight or in Shadow; Stories inspired by paintings of Edward Hopper

by Lawrence Block
Infinity Net: Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New Yorks Legendary

Chelsea Hotel By Sherill Tippins

Isadora Duncan, Life into Art, edited by Doree Duncan.
Isamu Noguchi by Bruce Altshuler

Its What I Do: A Photographers Life of Love and War by Lynsey

Addario
Jackson Pollock by Helen A. Harrison

Jackson Pollock; memories arrested in space, by Martin Gray

Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter by Patricia Albers
Judy Chicago, your choice

Julia Morgan: Architect of Dreams by Ginger Wadsworth

Julia on Julia, Julie Powell

Julie Taymor, Playing With Fire by Julie Taymor

Just Kids by Patty Smith

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, by Kara

Walker
Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist By Martha Kearns
Ladies of the Canyons by Lesley Poling-Kempes
Lang Lang: Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang
Lee Krasner, a biography by Gail Levin
Lee Miller, a life by Carolyn Burke

Leni, The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl, Steven Bach

Leonard Cohen, everybody knows by Harvey Kubernik
Life in the Wrong Lane, Greg Dobbs
Life Studies, Susan Vreeland
Lion King by Julie Taymor
Lisettes List by Susan Vreeland

Lives of Artists by Calvin Tomkins

Louise Bourgeois, the secret of the cells by Rainer Crone and Petrus
Graf Schaesberg
Louise Nevelson,; A passionate life, by Laurie Lisle
Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
Lulu Meets God and doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland
Lust for Life, by Oliver Stone

Mademoiselle Chanel; A novel by C. W. Gortner

Mark Rothko; From the Inside Out by Christopher Rothko

Mary Coin by Marisa Silver

Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest by Arnold Berke

Mary Oliver, your choice

Master of Dreams, Joseph Cornell
Master Pieces, The Curators Game, Thomas Hoving
Maurice Sendak; A celebration of the artist and his work by Justin
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Schiller
Maus a survivors Tale: My father bleeds history, Art Spiegelman
Modigliani by Jeffrey Mayers
Mr. Mac and Me by Esther Freud
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Niki de Saint Phalle by Christiane Weidemann

Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg by Calvin Tomkins
Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey

Old man Goya, by Julia Blackburn

On Looking, eleven walks with expert eyes by Alexandra Horowitz

Orchard, by Larry Watson

Paul Klee, painting music, Hajo Duchting
Perfume: The Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind *

Piano Lessons: Music, Love and True Adventures by Noah Adams

Picasso Wars, Russell Martin

Picassos Weeping Woman, the life and art of Dora Maar, Mary Ann
Caws
Prospect by Anne Truitt
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Radio Girls by
Remedios Varo; Unexpected Journey, by Janet A. Kaplan
Ruth Bernard, Between art and life
Schulz and Peanuts, a biography by David Michaelis
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees; over thirty
years of conversations with Robert Irwin by Lawrence

Weschler
Shadow, Fire and Snow; the life of Tina Modotti by Patricia Albers
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The epic life and immortal
photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

Sleeping with Schubert by Bonnie Mason

Stradivarius Genius by Toby Faber

Strapless, by Deborah Davis

Sylvia and Ted, a novel by Emma Tennant

The Accidental Masterpiece, on the art of life and vice versa, Michael
Kimmelman

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and Life of Georgia OKeeffe by Jan Garden Castro

Forger, a novel by B. A. Shapiro
of Bill Viola edited by Chris Townsend
of the Con by Anthony M. Amore
of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee

The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who
Reinvented American Literature by Ben Tarnoff
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
The Diary of Frida Kahlo by Frida Kahlo
The Dream Lover: a Novel by Elizabeth Berg

The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland

The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber

The Gardner Heist; the true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft,

by Ulrich Boser
The Girl with the Gallery by Lindsay Pollock
The Green Memories of Desire Lee Miller Roland Penrose, Katherine
Slusher

The Haiku Master, a novel by Takiko Morimoto

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

The Horses Mouth by Joyce Cary

The Irish Game by Matthew Hart

The Lacuna LP: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lady and the Unicorn: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier

The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr

The Luminist by David Rocklin

The Madhouse Nudes; A Novel by Robert Schultz

The Master's Muse (Tanaquil Le Clercq, known as Tanny and
George Balanchine) by Varley O'Conner

The Muralist: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro

The Mystery of Lewis Carroll by Jenny Woolf

The Nine Lives of the Muse by Francine Prose

The Obstacle Race, Germaine Greer

The Painted Girls: a novel by Cathy Marie Buchanan

The Painted Kiss, Elizabeth Hickey

The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
The Painter by Peter Heller

The Painter From Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein

The Painter of Souls by Phillip Kazan

The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland
The Race for Paris: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton

The Red Rose Girls; An Uncommon Story of Art and Love by Alice A.
Carter
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves and the Hunt for a
Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick

The Silver Swan by Elena Delbanco

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box by Don Thompson

The Tenth Circle by Jody Picoult

The Woman In the Photograph by Dana Gynther

The Yellow House, Van Gogh, Gauguin and nine turbulent weeks in
Arles by Martian Gayford
Tibetan Peach Pie; A true account of an imaginative life by Tom
Robbins
Toulouse-Lautrec, Reinhold Heller
True Colors by Summerset Studio
Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel by Nancy Horan
Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel by Priya Parmer

Warhol by Klaus Honnef

Ways of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy

Why People Photograph by Robert Adams

With Violets, a novel of the dawn of Impressionism by Elizabeth

Robards
Women, Annie Leibovitz

Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher

Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler