Artists at Home [Hardcover]

Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity.

FromWilliam Morris andPablo Picasso toGeorgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo,Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats, creative hubs, lifelong homes, and holiday escapes of key artistic figures. Author Susie Hodge introduces readers toeach artist's life and work,placing the significance of the home at the heart of their practice before exploring howeach residency both reflected and inspired the artist’s creative output.

By delving into their homes – the architecture, interiors, the lives lived there, and the work created there – we can see theseartists’ private spaces as reflections of their artistic output.For theseinspiring people, homes are places wherethe boundaries between work, creativity and daily life are indistinct– they are as much as reflection of their artistic intention as the great artworks that made their name. 

Susie Hodgeis a UK author who has written widely on art, art history and art techniques. She has published over 100 books, including The Short Story of Art, Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained and Modern Art Explained.

INTRODUCTION
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER
THOMAS COLE, ROSA BONHEUR, GUSTAVE MOREAU
FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON
PAUL CÉZANNE, WILLIAM MORRIS
AUGUSTE RODIN, CLAUDE MONET
JAMES ENSOR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR, FRANZ VON STUCK
VANESSA BELL AND DUNCAN GRANT
SUZANNE VALADON, PABLO PICASSO
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
OTTO DIX, JEAN COCTEAU, RENÉ MAGRITTE
LEE MILLER AND ROLAND PENROSE
SALVADOR DALÍ, BARBARA HEPWORTH
MASANARI MURAI, FRlC;