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Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Master Painters and Sculptors by Elizabeth Lunday
3.0
Took me ages to finish it and so many of the stories in the renaissance beginning of the book are now mixed up in my brain.
So many French asshole men, that was like 70% of the book and only 2 women Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Khalo.
It does make sense historically that most “great masters” are European men and this is a book that roasts them. Which I was a fan of but then it got boring and I started thinking I wish I was learning about less known artists who are less assholes.
Pros are that it does a good job at taking people who were deemed geniuses off their pedestals and it humanises them.
So many French asshole men, that was like 70% of the book and only 2 women Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Khalo.
It does make sense historically that most “great masters” are European men and this is a book that roasts them. Which I was a fan of but then it got boring and I started thinking I wish I was learning about less known artists who are less assholes.
Pros are that it does a good job at taking people who were deemed geniuses off their pedestals and it humanises them.