The Artist's Journey The travels that inspired the artistic greats

by Elborough, Travis

• ISBN13: 9780711268692
• ISBN10: 071126869X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-24
• Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Summary

Follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series.

Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings.

From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels, this book explores 30 influential journeys taken by artistic greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the painters’ personal lives and the broader cultural landscape.

Award-winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the world’s most famous paintings, including Henri Matisse’s vivid paintings of Morocco, Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock prints of Mount Fuji in Japan, Marianne North’s paintings of India and David Hockney’s California pool paintings.

Author Biography

Described as 'one of the country's finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough is an acclaimed author and social commentator who lives in London. His work delves into the ephemera of retro culture as well as the history of London, geography, and a broad range of other subjects. His Atlas of Vanishing Places won the Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards in 2020, and he has also written The Bus We Loved, a passionate love letter to the Routemaster bus which defined London transport for more than 50 years. His other works include A Traveller’s Year, A London Year, The Long-Player Goodbye, Being A Writer and A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution. Travis is a regular contributor to Radio 4 and the Guardian, and has penned articles on all aspects of travel and culture, from pirates in the Caribbean to donkeys at the British seaside. He has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, BBC History Magazine and Kinfolk among others, and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, where he teaches creative writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Jean-Michel Basquiat Seeks Connections in Cote d’Ivoire and Benin
Caravaggio Legs It to Malta
Mary Cassatt Makes an Impression in Paris
Paul Cézanne Aches for Aix-en-Provence
Salvador Dalí Takes Manhattan by Surrealist Storm
Marcel Duchamp Becomes Obsessed with Chess in Buenos Aires
Albrecht Dürer Has a Whale of a Time in the Netherlands
Helen Frankenthaler Soaks Up Provincetown
Caspar David Friedrich Replenishes Himself on Rügen
David Hockney Goes La-la over Los Angeles
Katsushika Hokusai Scales Mount Fuji
Tove Jansson Summers in the Pellinki Archipelago
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Honeymoon in Cuernavaca
Wassily Kandinsky Finds His Artistic Calling in the Province of Vologda
Alexander Keirincx Paints All the King’s Castles in Yorkshire and Scotland
Paul Klee Is Transformed by Tunisia
Gustav Klimt Gets Scenic on the Attersee
Oskar Kokoschka Takes Refuge in Polperro
Henri Matisse Fends Off the Rain in Morocco
London Makes a Big Impression on Claude Monet
Berthe Morisot Accepts a Proposal in Normandy
Edvard Munch Summers by the Sea at Åsgårdstrand
Isamu Noguchi Takes a Monumental World Tour
Marianne North Goes South to Paint Indian Flora
Georgia O’Keeffe Goes West
Pablo Picasso Falls for the South of France
John Singer Sargent Sinks into Venice
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Goes Canvassing across Spain
J.M.W. Turner Takes a Final Tour of Switzerland
Vincent van Gogh Has Quite a Year in Provence
Selected Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits