Lives Of The Great Modern Artists (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

Informative, penetrating and illuminated with entertaining anecdotes and balanced historical judgment, this book presents some of the most engaging life stories of our times. "A fascinating collection of some of the saddest, strangest and most intriguing life stories of our time", The Observer. Here, Edward Lucie-Smith vividly evokes the lives of some of the great artists of the last 100 years or so, from Picasso and Duchamp to Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the maze of different styles and movements with authority and verve. Eventful, intimate and poignant biographies, clearly grouped according to style and era, are illustrated with important works, self-portraits and photographs.

New entries on such artists as Marlene Dumas, Shirin Neshat and Zhang Xiaogang show the global reach of art in the present day. Informative and entertaining, illuminated with telling anecdotes and balanced historical judgment, this is a wonderful collection for everyone interested in the art and artists of the past one hundred years.