The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art by Greg Bottoms.
Also the memoir Just Kids by Patti Smith about her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Also the biography Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by Ann Marks
Also the memoir The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
PureMathematician837 on
Two excellent books: THE MAN WHO MADE VERMEERS and THE ART THIEF.
port_okali on
*All The Beauty in the World*, a memoir by Patrick Bringley, who studied art history and, in order to retreat and calm down in a time of personal crisis, became a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s a reflective, beautiful book for art lovers.
(Thank you, unknown person who recommended this in another thread a while ago – I might not have discovered it otherwise and I loved it!)
ladyfuckleroy on
Van Gogh’s Ear by Bernadette Murphy!
the_lusankya on
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Iriving Atone, if you haven’t read it already.
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For nonfiction you could try
The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art by Greg Bottoms.
Also the memoir Just Kids by Patti Smith about her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Also the biography Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by Ann Marks
Also the memoir The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Two excellent books: THE MAN WHO MADE VERMEERS and THE ART THIEF.
*All The Beauty in the World*, a memoir by Patrick Bringley, who studied art history and, in order to retreat and calm down in a time of personal crisis, became a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s a reflective, beautiful book for art lovers.
(Thank you, unknown person who recommended this in another thread a while ago – I might not have discovered it otherwise and I loved it!)
Van Gogh’s Ear by Bernadette Murphy!
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Iriving Atone, if you haven’t read it already.
*The Art Thief*