Due to a passing in the family a few years ago and my subsequent health issues stemming from that, I was unable to download this book in time to review it before it was archived as I did not visit this site for years after the bereavement. Thank you for the opportunity.

I Know an Artist; The inspiring connections between the world's greatest artists by Susie Hodge gives you the stories about how different artists knew each other, and were influenced by and influencers to others.

This has lovely pictures in it so you can see the paintings being discussed, and pictures of the artists.

If you're interested in art or the lives of artists, then this would be a great book for you!

I Know an Artist was published on 2 April 2019 and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop.org .

You can follow Susie Hodge on Twitter, Instagram and her website.

I was given access to this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to  Quarto .

This would make the perfect coffee table book for even the most casual art lover. The short descriptions of each artist packed with information paired with delightful illustrations make this a fun stop and go read.

I love art.

I love stories of interconnectivity.

I love books that contain stories that serve as jumping off points so that my students can conduct deeper research into the subject they just learned about.

This book combines all those things in a pretty little package, which is always a plus!

I Know An Artist is a book which intend to show connections between different artists, whether that is one artist being inspired by another or that the two artists were friends.

Though I like the work of Sarah Papworth and her interpretations or the artists own art to create their face I think that for readers who do not know much about the artists in the book, it may come across as confusing.

Having personally studied art for some time I must admit that though this book's cover called to me,. even I struggled with caring about the artists I didn't already know. I found myself skipping to the next artist I knew.

The text often started with a spoiler so even if I didn't already know the artist I was told something that was out of chronological order and felt like a pointless read. For example If I know when or at what age the artist died before I even know what they created it meant I was less interested.

I liked the premise of the book, it is not often you get to know much about an artists life I just felt with interpenetrated art, text in a non-chronicle order and strong terminology even I struggled with the book.

I think this is probably a book more suited to someone with a lot of art knowledge as someone like me would have to look up a lot of the terminology.

Though it may not be something I would read cover to cover I did enjoy reading about the life of each of the artists I did know. I would be happy to own a copy even if I keep it on my coffee table for the odd perusal.

A very interesting and entertaining book. It introduced me to so many artists, some I'd heard of, some whose names I didn't know but recognized their work, and some I was previously unaware of. Each artist has a short bio and overview of their career, and a link to the next artist covered. The illustrations in the book are cool, but be prepared to do a lot of googling, as there are no photos of the artists or their work. At first this kind of bothered me, but to be honest, I would've been googling like mad anyway, so I got over that quickly. A great book for any artist and/or art lover.

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Featuring over 80 artists, this book is a nice introduction to a variety of influential artists. What's interesting about it is that it presents this information in a unique way; rather than going in chronological order or by movement, it jumps from artists to artists based on their connections to each other. It's an interesting way to discover new facts and start diving into artists you're not familiar with. The book itself is also visually appealing. I think this will be particularly popular with older kids and teenagers in my art education library.

Featuring over 80 artists and coming in at just under 200 pages, this book is definitely more of an introduction than a comprehensive look at any particular artist or style. The book starts with a random artist and then randomly leap-frogs around based on who that artist knew, exhibited with, or was inspired by. It's definitely not a format that lends itself to deep study or even long term retention of knowledge, but it has a lot of fun facts and talked about a lot of artists I had never heard of before so I did find it very enjoyable overall. It's definitely more of a coffee table book than anything else, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

One thing I really loved about this in particular is that it included a lot of female artists. I think that literally about half of all artists featured were women, which is definitely something you have to make an intentional effort to do in a profession that was so long dominated by men. I think it helps that most artists featured are from the mid 1800s to today, but it was still nice to see and I also appreciated that it often talked about their struggles finding people to teach them or places that would display their work etc.

This is so great. I love how all artists are connected in some way or another. Be it who they knew, who they encountered, or my favorite, how one was influenced by the other.

This is a wonderful book for girls and one that should be on school library shelves. I learned a few things I didn’t know and I honestly felt rather inspired and motivated as an artist after reading!

Think of this as a book of maps of the art world without any maps, or the Venn diagrams of connections and overlaps between painters without any Venns. We start with Monet, and basically riff off from there, elaborating on each and every artist the script causes us to encounter. It's definitely a most varied and an educational volume, even if it talks of styles without defining them and artworks without reproducing them. But I don't really think it fully works – with so many bite-sized biographies to absorb it reads like a toilet book for dipping into in three minute bursts, but that kind of diminishes the exploration of all the links between the subjects for anyone without a photographic memory.

This would make the perfect coffee table book for even the most casual art lover. The short descriptions of each artist packed with information paired with delightful illustrations make this a fun stop and go read.

My sister has an art degree and has tried to school me in art knowledge for years. I now have a bit more foundation to fit her outpouring facts upon.

Thank you to NetGalley and White Lion Publishing for a free digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

I loved the concept of this book and eagerly read through the list of artists who are subjects of this volume. However, despite repeated attempts, the book would not fully download. Such a shame as it looked wonderful!

The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Here 84 artists are showcased in order to reveal fascinating connections between them.
Thanks to this book I had the chance to read about my favourite artists and discovering new ones. And this was something I really appreciated.
One thing I did not like very much was that at times there weren't the artists' true portraits or some of their works to look at.
Despite that, I think that if you are an art lover this book could open your eyes and make you discover new things.

An inspiring and informative introduction to a wide range of artists. I loved that the book incorporated house-hold name such as Monet and Frida Kahlo s as well as lesser-known artists, such as Lois Mailou Jones, Amrita Sher-GIL, Yayoi Kusama and Mary Cassatt.

It would be even better if the book suggested art works to look up (for each artist).

The illustrations are gorgeous. However, as there are no illustrations of the actual art works it would be great if the text suggested famous works by the artist so the reader could go and look them up. However, the lack of illustrations made me go and google the artist to see their work, so the book does encourage further study, which can only be a good thing!

I really liked this book. It was informativeand entertainin. thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the arc

Thank you NetGalley for my arc. Loved learning all the fun facts and how artists are tied together! The illustrations were very cool too.

(Unfortunately, when downloading the PDF, the book was not formatted and layouted as in print because all I saw was plain text and the illustrations, sometimes stretching over several pages which was so hard to read, therefore I will be reviewing the book by its contents only.)

I found out about a lot of artists I haven't heard of before or wasn't very familiar with so that was quite interesting. The connections between the artists, how they even influenced the other and what great impact they had on each other was super intriguing to find out. So many connections, who would've known? The information is well researched, the illustrations were very fun and quirky, other than that I think a few of the artist's works would've been nice for reference.

I Know an Artist
written by Susie Hodge
illustrated b y Sarah Papworth

Over 80 artists are showcased in this informative book about artists and their connections with one another. Have you ever wondered if two artists might have known or influenced one another? This book has some of that information as well as a bit about the artists and the type of artwork they produced. There were a number of new-to-me artists from all over the world. There were artists from the past and more current ones as well. The illustrations are interesting and simply reflect the artists’ work. I did feel at times that I would have liked to have a reference nearby that had the artists true portraits or at least a few of their works of art to look at.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group-While Lion for the ARC – This is my honest review.

3-4 Stars

This is a wonderful anthology of artists throughout history. Each is represented with information about their work, complimented with a portrait. It's a must have for anyone interested in are history.