HOME & GARDEN

Artists at Home

Frances Lincoln. Oct. 2023. 240p. ISBN 9780711269439. $45. INTERIOR DESIGN
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Hodge (How Art Can Change Your Life) offers glimpses of the homes of 19th- and 20th-century artists—Monet, Picasso, O’Keeffe, and many others—and how these spaces reflected or refuted their owners’ aesthetic sensibilities. From the frugal or minimalist to the aggressively artistic and the wildly cluttered, these homes and designs show an intimate side of the artists. The book uses photographs of the exterior and interior features of their houses as entry points into biographical details, some full of well-known information, and others more personal and rooted in the homes themselves. Art historians will probably not find much, if anything, that’s new in these pages, and there are only a few images of the artists themselves, but the book may inspire readers to think of the artists’ lives in new ways, lived off the canvas.
VERDICT As resplendent and visually sumptuous as readers might expect, this would make a lovely gift for fans of art museums and design. Best for general readers interested in the material worlds and creative influences of artists.
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