Title:
Art
Author:
Cumming, Robert.
ISBN:
9781405310543
9780756613587
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Dorling Kindersley, 2005.
Physical Description:
512 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series:
Eyewitness companions
Eyewitness companions.
Contents:
Introduction -- Introducing art -- What is art? -- Media and materials -- The history of art -- Early art -- Gothic and Early Renaissance -- High Renaissance and mannerism -- The Baroque era -- From Rococo to Neo-Classicism -- Romantic and academic art -- Modernism -- Contemporary art -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract:
This book tries to capture the involvement of the audience in informed discussion or exchange of opinions about a particular work of art, or specific issues. Also to address the four basic questions usually asked: 1. What should I look for? What are the key features in a Picasso, Rembrandt, Raphael or a Turner. 2. What is going on? What is the story? Who is Hercules? What is the Nativity? Who is that girl with a broken wheel? Who is the man abducting the woman who looks like a tree? Does that big red square mean anything? 3. What is its value? Am I looking an ten pounds, ten thousand pounds, one million, ten million? 4. Is it any good? And in front of a pile of bricks or an unmade bed, am I being taken for a ride?
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