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Art Plural - Voices of Contemporary Art by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Art
Art is now a globalized phenomenon, with artists communicating and interacting on an international scale as never before. So what does it mean to be a contemporary artist in a globalized world? In Art Plural: Voices of Contemporary Art, hear from world-renowned art historian and writer Michael Peppiatt ...Show more
Artists' Lives by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Art
Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes, and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art-world insider. Praised by The Art Newspaper as "the best art writer of his generation," Michael Peppiatt has encountered many European modern artis ...Show more
Artists' Lives by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Art | Series: November of Draft Layout Ser.
This essential collection brings us face to face with some of the greatest artists of modern times. Michael Peppiatt-described by the Art Newspaper as "the best art wrier of his generation"-combines authority lively observation, and sharp personal insight.
Francis Bacon - Studies for a Portrait by Michael Peppiatt; Francis Bacon
Category: Art
Francis Bacon was one of most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. However much his avowed aim was to simplify both himself and his art, he remained a deeply complex person. Bacon was keenly aware of this underlying contradiction, and whether talking or painting, strove cons ...Show more
Francis Bacon in Your Blood by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Biography
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes... Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him t ...Show more
Francis Bacon in Your Blood by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Biography
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes...Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to ...Show more
Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Art
'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historians Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world-famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking ...Show more
The Existential Englishman - Paris among the Artists by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Biography
A love letter to Paris and a memoir of a life spent at its bohemian heart, rich with adventures, misadventures and the beauty of one of the most enduringly romantic cities in the worldThe Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and ...Show more
The Existential Englishman - Paris among the Artists by Michael Peppiatt
Category: Biography
The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris i o a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks- 'You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you'. This, then, is one man's not uncritical love letter to ...Show more
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