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Artists' Journeys That Shaped Our World
The travels that inspired the artistic greats
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Artists' Journeys That Shaped Our World
The travels that inspired the artistic greats
About this book
Follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series.
Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings.
From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels, this book explores 30 influential journeys taken by artistic greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the painters’ personal lives and the broader cultural landscape.
Award-winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the world’s most famous paintings, including Henri Matisse’s vivid paintings of Morocco, Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock prints of Mount Fuji in Japan, Marianne North’s paintings of India and David Hockney’s California pool paintings.
Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings.
From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels, this book explores 30 influential journeys taken by artistic greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the painters’ personal lives and the broader cultural landscape.
Award-winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the world’s most famous paintings, including Henri Matisse’s vivid paintings of Morocco, Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock prints of Mount Fuji in Japan, Marianne North’s paintings of India and David Hockney’s California pool paintings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Jean-Michel Basquiat Seeks Connections in Cote dâIvoire and Benin
- Caravaggio Legs It to Malta
- Mary Cassatt Makes an Impression in Paris
- Paul CĂ©zanne Aches for Aix-en-Provence
- Salvador DalĂ Takes Manhattan by Surrealist Storm
- Marcel Duchamp Becomes Obsessed with Chess in Buenos Aires
- Albrecht DĂŒrer Has a Whale of a Time in the Netherlands
- Helen Frankenthaler Soaks Up Provincetown
- Caspar David Friedrich Replenishes Himself on RĂŒgen
- David Hockney Goes La-la over Los Angeles
- Katsushika Hokusai Scales Mount Fuji
- Tove Jansson Summers in the Pellinki Archipelago
- Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Honeymoon in Cuernavaca
- Wassily Kandinsky Finds His Artistic Calling in the Province of Vologda
- Alexander Keirincx Paints All the Kingâs Castles in Yorkshire and Scotland
- Paul Klee Is Transformed by Tunisia
- Gustav Klimt Gets Scenic on the Attersee
- Oskar Kokoschka Takes Refuge in Polperro
- Henri Matisse Fends Off the Rain in Morocco
- London Makes a Big Impression on Claude Monet
- Berthe Morisot Accepts a Proposal in Normandy
- Edvard Munch Summers by the Sea at à sgÄrdstrand
- Isamu Noguchi Takes a Monumental World Tour
- Marianne North Goes South to Paint Indian Flora
- Georgia OâKeeffe Goes West
- Pablo Picasso Falls for the South of France
- John Singer Sargent Sinks into Venice
- JoaquĂn Sorolla y Bastida Goes Canvassing across Spain
- J.M.W. Turner Takes a Final Tour of Switzerland
- Vincent van Gogh Has Quite a Year in Provence
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Picture Credits
- Author Acknowledgments
- Copyright