"Goya" by Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes turns his critical eye to one of art history's most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.
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"New Art City" by Jed Perl
A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics.
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"Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl" by Steven Bach
The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler’s filmmaker," one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity.
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"Freud at Work" by Bruce Bernard, David Dawson, Sebastian Smee
"Freud at Work" is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated-and most private-artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with undiminished energy and discipline. In 120 revealing black-and-white and color photographs taken in Lucian Freud's London studio, and in a fascinating in-depth interview, we come to understand the stages of the artist's work and the intensity of his interaction with his subjects-whether fellow artist David Hockney, the Queen of England, or performance artist Leigh Bowery, among others.
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