The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-modern: 1 - Brossura

Strickland, Carol; Boswell, John

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ISBN 10: 0740768727 ISBN 13: 9780740768729

Casa editrice: Andrews McMeel Pub, 2007

Riassunto

Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.

"Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge."--Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern

This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art education out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes the history of art movements accessible to beginning art museum-goers – even at a cursory reading. From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from African art to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections (prehistoric and medieval, renaissance and baroque, the nineteenth century, modern art, and contemporary art) covering a little more than 200 pages.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Carol Strickland has a doctorate in American culture from the University of Michigan. She is theChristian Science Monitor's art critic and contributes feature stories on the arts to theNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Art and Antiques. She is the author ofThe Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture,The Illustrated Timeline of Art History, and numerous artists' monographs. Carol lives in New York City and Long Island.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Andrews McMeel Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0740768727
• ISBN 13: 9780740768729
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 206
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile