Traces the history and development of the treatment of scenes of artists at work and incidents from the lives of famous artists in paintings from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century
In 1913, outraged by Henri Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder" and "rapine" and proceeded...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a "carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston...