Book Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young, Kate Bryan

Short careers, long legacies, immortal artwork: Kate Bryan’s upcoming book Bright Stars is both an examination and a celebration of the lives of 30 great artists who died young. It’s hard to believe that such heavyweight art figures as Van Gogh in fact died at 38, or even Jean-Michel Basquiat at 27. This new book explores how such premature ends contribute to the mythologisation of the artist figure – while reappraising the importance of other artists whose early deaths excluded them from the history books, from Charlotte Salomon to Amrita Sher-Gil. Bright Stars makes their stories shine: pre-order away.