Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Paul Gauguin - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: “Criticism is our censorship . . .” So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote “Racontars de rapin” only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was:
My Friend Van Gogh by Emile Bernard - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: “I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but I still don’t invent the whole of painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made—but to be untangled—in the real world.” —Vincent van Gogh to Émile... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was:
Degas and His Model - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was:
Impressionism 1860 - 1920 MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work’s title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water... MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: