You write that you are an avid zine collector and a maker of "artists' books," and although I'm not really sure what that means, that's the phrase that pops into my head when I look at your shelf (with the apostrophe and the "s" transposed): artist's books.
For the makers of The Artist, clutching five Oscars this week including best film, silence is quite literally golden.
Grayson Perry, urban bohemian, also artist, maker of pots and television, did an excellent three-part series on Hunt's channel about taste and class – working, middle and upper.
Now, he is a successful artist; maker of picture frames-with a workshop on West 19th St. employing a dozen artisans; a successful dealer in art objects; and a successful hanger of pictures (His speciality is arranging pictures and art objects as backgrounds for the display of furniture, but he's willing to hang pictures in private homes at a rate of $100 a wall.
Taste Makers The roster of artists includes Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, Francis David Millet, John Singer Sargent, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thomas Eakins and John Sloan.
Her iconic artworks evoke a new/ancient dialectic of artist as myth-maker.
Steve McQueen, the visual artist and maker of three award-winning feature films, is to receive the British Film Institute's highest accolade.
He is better known as an artist: a maker of frisky collages, a painter of exquisite male nudes, an assembler of miniatures.
Does he have a vision and voice of his own, or is he more of a mashup artist, a maker of structurally ingenious page-turners?
