New Library Books in Art

Title Bernini: His Life and His Rome
Author Franco Mormando
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Call NumberNB623.B5 M57 2011
Synopsis from Publisher
Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and buildings that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall tourists.

Title Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter A life
Author Patrica Albers
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Call Number ND237.M53 A85 2011
Synopsis excerpts from Publisher
“Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.” —New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950s
Joan Mitchell is the first full-scale biography of the abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s; a portrait of an outrageous artist and her struggling artist world, painters making their way in the second part of America’s twentieth century.

Title Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome
Author David Franklin and Sebastian Schutze
Publisher Yale
Call Number ND623.C265 A4 2011
Synopsis from publisher
The Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound impact on a wide range of baroque painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterward. This captivating book illustrates the notion of "Caravaggism," showcasing 65 works by Peter Paul Rubens and other important artists of the period who drew inspiration from Caravaggio. Also depicted are Caravaggio canvases that fully exhibit his distinctive style, along with ones that had a particularly discernible impact on other practitioners.

Title Modigliani
Author Meryle Secrest
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Call NumberND623.M67 S43 2011
Synopsis from Publisher
Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh’s. In Modigliani’s time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but not part of their movement. His work was a link between such portraitists as Whistler, Sargent, and Toulouse-Lautrec and that of the Art Deco painters of the 1920s as well as the new approaches of Gauguin, Cézanne, and Picasso.