5 fascinating books about ART and ARTISTS that I admire

[@lilhedonistcannibal123]

I wish to love things the way Dakota, loves and talks about art

[@kelseytaylor6314]

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[@quinni241]

books listed - Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic (1:16 - 4:36) - Leonardo by Frank Zoellner (5:14 - 9:18) - Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthy Delights by Hans Belting (10:20 - 13:15 - Goya by Frederick S. Wight (13:16 - 15:59) - The Mission of Art by Alex Grey (16:00 - 19:54)

[@bethysbarn]

Thank you so much 🥰❤️❤️❤️

[@lunaxxmoon]

I love all her videos. Her voice is calming and I love the ways she speaks.

[@kelseytaylor6314]

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[@papercrowpress]

One of my favorite comfort watches is the Marina Abromovich documentary The Artist is Present, all about the 2010 retrospective (although in my mind it was more like 2013 for some reason). I just love Marina herself in the doc- especially what she says about being spilt between being this determined powerhouse and being a perpetual sad & disappointed child.

[@nissasbookcorner]

i LOVE the idea of absence, like you mentioned with the mona lisa,, soo interesting how absence can make something so obvious

[@lazloandbooks]

Please, never stop talking so passionately about your interests

[@emilyemily3724]

Hi Dakota! The man at the other end of Marinas arrow is Ulay, her former lover. I’m not sure if the book touches on it but you should look up their performance titled The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk (1988) where they walked the length of The Great Wall of China, meeting in the middle to say goodbye 💜 their story has always moved me x

[@denisaord4368]

It would be so lovely to make a video with your favourite paintings 🥹

[@ocdtdc]

Welcome to team black coffee. I had a list of weird artists I've found online and sadly lost it but I'd recommend youtube channels like Blind Dweller for analysis on a lot of fascinating artists. A lot of people here have probably already heard of William Utermohlen (artist with dementia who did self-portraits) and Zdzisław Beksiński ("nightmare artist"). The documentary, My Kid Could Paint That raises a lot of fascinating questions about what makes art valuable or "legitimate."

[@miro2711]

One of my favourite art book discoveries is "The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World". As a 16 year old girl, and artist, this book was transcendental, and reaching all the parts of me that I want a book to. It deeply inspired, and encouraged me to keep making art that goes against societal expectations, and that embraces all of my being.

[@anabelhadad9715]

I just finished my thesis for my MFA and if you’re feeling marina abramovic you (or anyone) should read “Seeing Differently a History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts.” By Amelia Jones. It’s about how identity and the female form effect how performance art is perceived in the art world!

[@laurenschenck5355]

Please do part 2 and 3 videos ❤

[@badgalsheen]

love you!! such perfect timing 🥹

[@Zoe_NG]

I usually don't really comment on here but as an art historian i just LOVED this video!! I'm also really interested in literature, that's why I subscribed to you (literature was my minor in uni haha), so I love when you do this sort of crossover of my two 'loves' I guess... Anyway, I also love Bosch and have a print of the 'garden...' at home, its just such an amazing painting -- you always find something new, funny or even shocking in it. I also had the pleasure to look at some of his sketches at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin (if you ever find yourself in Berlin I highly recommend checking it out, anyone can just make an appointment and look at original sketches of e.g. Bosch or Dürer and many more) and he was really so ahead of his time with his inventions and his humour! I'll link the sketch I looked at because I think it's hilarious, it's a sort of pun I think? But the writing on it isn't in German so I'm not 100% sure. Sorry for this long message/rambling but i thought maybe you'd be interested in some more Bosch 'content' haha. I hope you have a lovely day! The link to the drawing titled 'The field has eyes, the forest has ears' : id.smb.museum/object/457472/das-feld-hat-augen-der-wald-hat-ohren PS: If you want to check out some Goya in Berlin there's a museum called 'Scharf-Gerstenberg' which has a collection of many surrealist artists and surrealist 'pioneers' like Goya and has some of his sketches on display!

[@fh6019]

As a fellow art history student, thank you for those recommendations!🫶

[@Zoe_NG]

@@fh6019 my pleasure! I’m glad I could help someone out ^^

[@geraldine3210]

I think you should look at Remedios Varo’s paintings, her art has space for the imagination and the dreams.

[@marcusr4711]

something i love about the mona lisa is that, according to the biography i read, it was sort of an “eternal experiment” for da vinci. apparently, whoever he painted it for wasn’t satisfied with the results, and left it with him. so he ended up reworking it, trying out new techniques, and just experimenting within the context of this one painting for years on end. the version we see now is still unfinished. (if anyone is interested i can find the book’s details later!)

[@janemahiya]

Im interested

[@marcusr4711]

@@janemahiya The book is “This is Leonardo da Vinci” by Joost Keizer! It’s a short overview of his life. It’s about 80 pages and illustrated. Very good introduction imo!

[@bLaCkArEkUsU]

there is a book by rainer maria rilke on auguste rodin i can wholeheartedly recommend. I read it during my time i was in professional training for sculpting and knowing rodins work and seeing the artist through rilkes eyes was so incredibly beautiful and touching

[@hannaknolke1180]

I am currently writing a assignment about Goya and his way of portraing insanity. It is super interesting and I honestly could write an entire book about it. I am also comparing Goya to Johann Heinrich Füssli who was a Swiss Artist. I think you would adore his paintings too

[@willieluncheonette5843]

" The first book today is Irving Stone's LUST FOR LIFE. It is a novel based on the life of Vincent van Gogh. Stone has done such a tremendous work that I don't remember anybody else doing the same. Nobody has written so intimately about somebody else, as if he is writing from his very own being. LUST FOR LIFE is not just a novel, it is a spiritual book. It is spiritual in my sense, because to me all dimensions of life have to be incorporated into a single synthesis; only then one is spiritual. The book is written so beautifully that the possibility that even Irving Stone will be able to transcend it is remote. After that book he wrote many others, and my second book today is also by Irving Stone. I count it second because it is secondary, not of the quality of LUST FOR LIFE. It is THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY, again based on another life in the same way. Perhaps Stone was thinking that he would be able to create another LUST FOR LIFE, but he failed. Although he failed, the book stands second - not to any other but to his own. There are hundreds of novels written on the lives of artists, poets, painters, but none of them reaches even to the height of the second book, what to say of the first. Both are beautiful, but the first is of transcendental beauty. The second book is a little lower, but it is not the fault of Irving Stone. When you know that you have written a book like LUST FOR LIFE, the ordinary human instinct is to imitate oneself, to create something of the same order, but the moment you imitate it cannot be the same. When he wrote LUST he was not imitating, he was a virgin island. When he wrote THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY he was imitating himself, and that is the worst imitation. Everybody does it in their own bathroom, looking in the mirror.... That's what one feels about his second book. But I say even though it is only a reflection in the mirror, it reflects something of the real; hence I count it. (Here the talker momentarily forgets whose life was depicted in THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY) "It was Michelangelo." Michelangelo? A great life. Then Stone has missed much. If it had been Gauguin then it would have been okay, but if it is Michelangelo then I am sorry; even I cannot forgive him. But he writes beautifully. His prose is like poetry, although the second book is not of the same quality as LUST FOR LIFE. It cannot be for the simple reason that there has never been a man like Vincent van Gogh. That Dutch fellow was just inimitable! He stands alone. In the whole sky full of stars he shines alone, separately, uniquely in his own way. To write a great book on him is easy, and it would have been so on Michelangelo, but Stone was trying to imitate himself; hence he missed. Never be an imitator. Do not follow... not even yourself."

[@antoniadglau]

i once read a book about Van Gogh, it was from a collection called Masterpieces of art, it was my dear obsession for a time, and I think about it still… funnily enough I also have it on storage on another country because well, life can be a bit cruel at times and books are heavy

[@ReadingNymph]

The way you talk about art is so inspiring ✨️

[@readingaster]

i strongly recommend jeanette winterson's art objects! she's my favorite author anyway so i might be a bit biased here but it's her book of essays on her own journey of becoming an art lover and collector and it genuinely changed my life and view on art and the world at large. also her writing is just delicious. and thanks for making this video, you reminded me how much i love art history and need to look into master's programs on it :)

[@sophiaaa69]

a part 2 is definitely needed

[@miaviolets4roses]

obsessed ♥️♥️

[@SevenUnwokenDreams]

Thank you so much for sharing. I've always loved art, and now as an adult I've started to study it on my own, and I want to learn all I can for the rest of my life. I agree about black coffee. I'm never going back. It's really the only way to drink it.

[@suedegrey5986]

just a shout out to australian art, brett whitely, amazing man & life, & val myers, magical fox lady, i recommend you read about them & feel the pain & passion & love & obsession they felt

[@HanaFissehaSolomon]

just when I need it ❤

[@kaylab6416]

YES dakota! i have been noticing the mona lisa mug

[@lapvona]

i would love more poetry recommendations !!

[@micag3556]

I was just looking for books about art the other day. Girl, you read my mind!!

[@TymonOskrzewicz]

I would personally recommend you Irving's stone biographies! Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Pissarro (he has more but Ive only read these) these are a piece of art by themselves

[@cmt1616]

I would LOVE more of these!

[@wooyofr]

its weird to hear you say you also love Bosch and The Garden of Earthly Delights, the first time i learned about that piece i instantly fell in love. none of my friends were interested in art like that so i couldn’t really talk about it with them like you just did with me. watching this video felt like we were best friends and you were telling me all about your interests :)

[@fatemakh96]

Walk through walls is amazing

[@juliettetheureau5893]

It looks like you would LOVE Hilma af Klint's biography written by Julia Voss! Such a fascinating artist!

[@sarinamartins429]

Dakota you never miss

[@WestTexasGothic]

I think you would like reading about Angela of Foligno. “Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and children; illiterate herself, she dictated her experiences to her confessor, who transcribed her words into Latin as the Memorial. In a direct and vigorous style, it tells of her suffering, visions, joy, identification with Christ, and finally her mystical union with God. However, her book has always been viewed with suspicion, indeed even bordering on heresy; her spirituality goes beyond conventional language as well as beyond accepted doctrines and modes of prayer.”

[@itziarrobles2997]

I just came to the coment section to tell that if you go to El Prado to see the "Garden of earthly delights" you will be delighted to witness it without protective glass, or at least the last time I went to the museum it didn´t have it (and I live in Madrid so) Also in that same museum there is a wonderfull collection with most of Goya´s work, I just love El Prado so much

[@willieluncheonette5843]

"I am acquainted with many kinds of geniuses who are living like beggars for the simple reason that they did not accept the mediocre way of life, and they did not allow themselves to become schizophrenic. They are living -- of course they have a joy which no politician can ever know, they have a certain radiance which no billionaire is going to know. They have a certain rhythm to their heart of which these so-called religious people have no idea. But as far as their outside is concerned, they have been reduced by the society to live like beggars. I would like you to remember one great, perhaps the greatest, Dutch painter: Vincent van Gogh. His father wanted him to become a religious minister, to live a life of respect -- comfortable, convenient -- and not only in this world, in the other world after death too. But Vincent van Gogh wanted to become a painter. His father said, "You are mad!" He said, "That may be. To me, you are mad. I don't see any significance in becoming a minister because all I would be saying would be nothing but lies. I don't know God. I don't know whether there is any heaven or hell. I don't know whether man survives after death or not. I will be continually telling lies. Of course it is respectable, but that kind of respect is not for me; I will not be rejoicing in it. It will be a torture to my soul." The father threw him out. He started painting -- he is the first modern painter. You can draw a line at Vincent van Gogh: before him painting was ordinary. Even the greatest painters, like Michelangelo, are of minor importance compared to Vincent van Gogh, because what they were painting was ordinary. Their painting was for the marketplace. Vincent van Gogh starts a totally new dimension. He could not sell a single painting in his whole life. Now, who will say that his painting has any point? Not a single person could see that there was anything in his paintings. His younger brother used to send him money; enough so that he did not die of starvation, just enough for seven days' food every week -- because if he gave him enough for a whole month he would finish it within two or three days, and the remaining days he would be starving. Every week he would send money to him. And what Vincent van Gogh was doing was for four days he would eat, and for the three days in between those four days he was saving money for paints, canvasses. This is something totally different from Michelangelo, who earned enough money, who became a rich person. He sold all his paintings. They were made to be sold, it was business. Of course he was a great painter, so even paintings that were going to be sold came out beautifully. But if he had had the guts of a Vincent van Gogh, he would have enriched the whole world. Three days starving, and van Gogh would purchase the paints and canvasses. His younger brother, hearing that not a single painting had sold, gave some money to a man -- a friend of his not known to Vincent van Gogh -- and told him to go and purchase at least one painting: "That will give him some satisfaction. The poor man is dying; the whole day he is painting, starving for painting but nobody is ready to purchase his painting -- nobody sees anything in it." Because to see something in Vincent van Gogh's painting you need the eye of a painter of the caliber of van Gogh; less than that will not do. His paintings will seem strange to you. His trees are painted so high that they go above the stars; stars are left far behind. Now, you will think that this man is mad... trees going up higher than the stars? Have you seen such trees anywhere? When Vincent van Gogh was asked, "Your trees always go beyond the stars...?" he said, "Yes, because I understand trees. I have felt always that trees are the ambition of the earth to reach the stars. Otherwise why? To touch the stars, to feel the stars, to go beyond the stars -- this is the desire of the earth. The earth tries hard, but cannot fulfill the desire. I can do it. The earth will understand my paintings, and I don't care about you, whether you understand or not." Now, this kind of paintings you cannot sell. The man his brother had sent came. Van Gogh was very happy: at last somebody had come to purchase. But soon his happiness turned into despair because the man looked around, picked one painting and gave the money. Vincent van Gogh said, "But do you understand the painting? You have picked it up so casually, you have not looked; I have hundreds of paintings. You have not even bothered to look around; you have simply picked one that was accidentally in front of you. I suspect that you are sent by my brother. Put the painting back, take your money. I will not sell the painting to a man who has no eyes for painting. And tell my brother never to do such a thing again." The man was puzzled how he managed to figure it out. He said, "You don't know me, how did you figure it out?" He said, "That's too simple. I know my brother wants me to feel some consolation. He must have manipulated you -- and this money belongs to him -- because I can see that you are blind as far as paintings are concerned. And I am not one to sell paintings to blind people; I cannot exploit a blind man and sell him a painting. What will he do with it? And tell my brother also that he also does not understand painting, otherwise he would not have sent you." When the brother came to know, he came to apologize. He said, "Instead of giving you a little consolation, I have wounded you. I will never do such a thing again." His whole life van Gogh was just giving his paintings to friends: to the hotel where he used to eat four days a week he would present a painting, or to a prostitute who had said once to him that he was not a beautiful man. To be absolutely factual, he was ugly. No woman ever fell in love with him, it was impossible. This prostitute out of compassion -- and sometimes prostitutes have more compassion than your so-called ladies, they understand men more -- just out of compassion she said, "I like you very much." He had never heard this. Love was a far away thing. Even liking.... He said, "Really, you like me? What do you like in me?" Now, the woman was at a loss. She said, "I like your ears. Your ears are beautiful." And you will be surprised that van Gogh went home, cut off his ears with a razor, packed them beautifully, went to the prostitute and gave his ears to her. And blood was flowing.... She said, "What have you done?" He said, "Nobody ever liked anything in me. And I am a poor man, how can I thank you? You liked my ears; I have presented them to you. If you had liked my eyes, I would have presented my eyes to you If you had liked me, I would have died for you." The prostitute could not believe it. But for the first time, van Gogh was happy, smiling; somebody had liked at least a part of him. And that woman had just said jokingly -- otherwise who bothers about your ears? If people like something, they like your eyes, they like your nose, your lips -- you won't hear lovers talking about each other's ears, that they like them. Van Gogh lived his whole life in poverty. He died painting. Before dying he went mad, because for one year continually he was painting the sun: hundreds of paintings, but nothing was coming to the point he wanted. But the whole day standing in the hottest place in France, in Arles, with the sun on the head -- because without the experience how can you paint? He painted the final painting, but he went mad. Just the heat, the hunger... but he was immensely happy; even in madness he was painting. And those paintings which he did in the madhouse are now worth millions. He committed suicide for the simple reason that he had painted everything that he wanted to paint. Now painting was finished; he had come to a dead end. There was nothing more to do. Now to go on living was occupying space, somebody's place; that was ugly to him. That's what he wrote in his letters to his brother: "My work is done. I have lived tremendously -- the way I wanted to live. I have painted what I wanted to paint. My last painting I have done today, and now I am taking a jump from this life into the unknown, whatever it is, because this life no longer contains anything for me." Will you consider this man a genius? Will you consider this man intelligent, wise? No, ordinarily you would think he is simply mad. But I cannot say that. His living and his painting were not two things: painting was his living, that was his life. So to the whole world it seems suicide -- not to me. To me it simply seems a natural end. The painting is completed. Life is fulfilled. There was no other goal; whether he receives the Nobel prize, whether anybody appreciates his painting.... In his life nobody appreciated his work. In his life no art gallery accepted his paintings, even free. After he died, slowly, slowly, because of his sacrifice, painting changed its whole flavor. There would have been no Picasso without Vincent van Gogh. All the painters that have come after Vincent van Gogh are indebted to him, incalculably, because that man changed the whole direction. Slowly, slowly, as the direction changed, his paintings were discovered. A great search was made. People had thrown his paintings in their empty houses, or in their basements, thinking that they were useless. They rushed to their basements, discovered his paintings, cleaned them. Even faked paintings came onto the market as authentic van Gogh. Now there are only two hundred paintings; he must have painted thousands. But any art gallery that has a Vincent van Gogh is proud, because the man poured his whole life in his paintings. They were not painted by color, but by blood, by breath -- his heartbeat is there.

[@bertieahern6330]

Outstanding! Is this an excerpt from a book?

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@bertieahern6330 Both my comments are from various talks by Osho.

[@nicholasleonardbookedits-si9ng]

From on the moon let's look upon the Earth, where clouds as old as Zeus's beard ballet. The whipped-cream stormclouds love to swirl and turn where couples could be kissing in their rain. Somewhere somebody wakes. Somebody sleeps and dreams of things they will forget about. Somebody in their window hugs their knees and lends the day a timeless thoughtful pout. Oh but it’s time to take our planet back. The globe you have to pay your taxes on? as slanted ruins long for people past who weren’t dependent on a soulless job. Why should we obey the rich anymore? Let's burn our bills the way we've toasted smores.

[@ella4571]

i would love to hear a video of your thoughts on nihilism. as someone who survived nine months of life as a nihilist, i cannot express how painful every waking moment was, believing in nothing. not only did i not believe in God, but i didn't believe in love, or other people, or myself. nothing was real or mattered, and until you live under that delusion, you cannot fathom the horror. please share your thoughts.

[@katieannwicked]

I think you would like Francesca Stern Woodman photography, her work is amazing and her life was very interesting as well, her work is quite haunting also check out the Art of Luis Ricardo Falero, John William Waterhouse and John Singer Sargent, there Amazing

[@margaretsmith4822]

Dakota!

[@paoladurigon940]

You should definitely check out the art of Francisco Garcia Lorca ! His paintings are about girls with an angelic creepy look and animals and gruesome !

[@lulusbookclub]

ATM your videos are my best friends

[@szczesciejestkoloruczarneg749]

Read Bruno Schulz, Witold Gombrowicz and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). Trust me 😎.

[@denisaord4368]

Thank you for making this video❤

[@adevelasquezt]

im currently finishing my thesis on Goyas witches and their relation to the spanish literature and folklore of the time. If ur interested Guy Tal has some amazing papers on the topic. much love!

[@luisa7061]

i was about to sleep but now i need to watch this video first

[@filmaddict143]

THIS VIDEO WAS MADE FOR MEEEEEEE

[@alyssaerinhoover]

What is the song that is playing during the Square Space ad? A rapper used it and I can’t remember who 😫

[@chrisje_tine]

Have you read ‘What Is Art?’ by Leo Tolstoy and if so, would you recommend it?

[@TeeundGeschichten]

Very random question but i‘ll ask anyways: When you got spiked in Dubrovnik, was it at Club Fuergo? I am listening to a true crime podcast right now about girls that got spiked in Dubrovnik at that club & so far all of them were blonde australian girls in their 20s. Which made me think of you. Stay safe & love you lots.

[@kafkaesque_666]

i think you might enjoy Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin :))

[@benwrex6280]

Oooooh I'm gonna check this out!

[@AleksandrCheryshev]

О, а что насчёт кинематографа? Интересно слушать

[@demiblaize]

I’d love to be refined about art like Dakota, but I’m a manga-and-rom-com kind of girly 😅

[@laurenschenck5355]

SO EXCITED!!! ❤

[@laurenschenck5355]

I love art so much too have favorite artists too ❤

[@rymesseghaier4921]

Selma I hope you're watching this !

[@ic3peak276]

Just as Dakota, I breathe art, and I love to see people who also appreciate life this way. I feel very connected.

[@shakirashakira7893]

in love with you

[@gisellelacerda6419]

❤❤❤

[@laurenschenck5355]

Dakota can you link all books you recommendations in your videos thank you so much ❤

[@bzztthundaa]

💘💘💘

[@laurenschenck5355]

You always have most beautiful book recommendations love it you are so special and absolutely most amazing beautiful women of the world ❤