The second tradition, embodied by the image of artist Norman Rockwell's humble country doctor, is personalization.
There are photographs of writers' beds -- those of Virginia Woolf, Jim Carroll, John Keats, Victor Hugo -- and close-up images of artists' tools and possessions: Hermann Hesse's typewriter; a Jean Genet manuscript; Rudolf Nureyev's slippers; Robert Graves's hat; Virginia Woolf's cane.
A cogent smaller show could have been made of the dozen or so images of artists at work here, including Claude Monet painting in a blue smock at an easel set up in the grass.
The new homepage is more visually appealing, with images of artists and bands front and center on the page and a sleek.
The collection includes images of artists including David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Cee Lo Green, Janelle Monae, Bono, Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga and others.
Jonathan Seliger, too, summons the image of famous artists in his work.
And, perhaps most intriguingly, it shows how the Romantic artist still influences the image of the artist today.
Some say it could be an image of the artist himself.
Sometimes, an image of the artist appears on the phone as the music plays.
Gorky had and lived a rhapsodic, princely image of the artist.
