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10 Artist Biographies Everyone Should Have On Their Shelves
If you are looking for an escape from the news and the noise, try our list of award-winning memoirs and artist biographies to add to your &#;to-read&#; shelf.
Our reading list evokes both the artists’ inner lives and their connections to their contemporaries and the art scene, whilst others shed light on the complexity of these figures and meditate on existential questions. We spotlight a selection of books drawing from previously unpublished letters and personal notes, through the scandalous &#;80s New York art scene to never-before-seen interviews and contemplations on the purpose of making art.
Widow Basquiat
by Jennifer Clement,
Instead of writing a classic artist biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, award-winning author Jennifer Clement chronicles her close friend Suzanne Mallouk&#;s love affair with Basquiat in an emotionally resonant prose. Drawing from Mallouk&#;s memories, Clement takes us through the mesmerizing and wild s New York art scene and goes into the pure but often abusive relationship Mallouk and Basquiat had, through the collateral damages of drug habits and suffocating paranoia. In the end, it is the story of Mallouk’s life, but also gives glimpses of who Basquiat was through his &#;w
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Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape (Hardcover)
By Sam Nakahira$
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American (Paperback)
By Laura Gao, Laura Gao (Illustrator)$
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers (Paperback)
By Deborah Heiligman$
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Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey (Paperback)
By Ozge Samanci$
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American (Hardcover)
By Laura Gao, Laura Gao (Illustrator)$
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Maybe An Artist, A Graphic Memoir (Paperback)
By Liz Montague$
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Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide (Hardcover)
By Isabel Quintero, Zeke Peña (Illustrator)$
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My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way. (Paperback)
By Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin$
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Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought) (Lives of . . .) (Paperback)
By Kathleen Krull, Kathryn Hewitt (Illustrator)$
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Team Up: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera (Hardcover)
By Francesca Ferretti de Blonay, Tania Garcia (Illustrat•
10 Artist Biographies To Concern This Year
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