{"product_id":"artists-letters","title":"Artists Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArtists’ Letters \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty and insightful correspondence from great artists. Arranged thematically, it includes writings and musings on \u003cb\u003elove, work, daily life, money, travel\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ethe creative process\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the theme of friendship, for example, letters provide evidence of a creative community between peers, with support and mutual appreciation that helps to dispel the myth of the artist as solitary genius. Letters between \u003cb\u003eVincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin \u003c\/b\u003eshow an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas. We see mutual admiration between \u003cb\u003eClaude Monet and Berthe Morisot\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003ePicasso’s quick notes to Jean Cocteau\u003c\/b\u003e illustrate their closeness. Letters, some of which includes \u003cb\u003esketches and drawings\u003c\/b\u003e, are reproduced with the transcript and some background and contextual information alongside.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Artists include: Salvador Dali, Goya, Lucian Freud, Vanessa Bell, Michelangelo, Mondrian, Gustav Klimt, Jasper Johns, Edward Burne-Jones, William Blake, Marcel Duchamp, Dorothea Tanning, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Monet, Marina Abramovic, Cindy Sherman, Joseph Cornell, Leonora Carrington, Wang Zhideng, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Renoir, Rubens, Eva Hesse, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Mary Cassatt, Jackson Pollock, Leonardo da Vinci, Joseph Beuys, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Henry Moore, Joshua Reynolds, Rembrandt, Whistler, Anni Albers, Naum Gabo, Kazimir Malevich, Francis Bacon, Ana Mendieta, Lee Krasner, Andy Warhol \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306220691838,"sku":"NW9780711288867","price":14.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780711288867.jpg?v=1778521788","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/artists-letters","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}