Art : a visual history

by Robert Cumming

Paper Book, 2015

Status

DISPONIBLE

Call number

R 700 C912

Publication

New York, New York : DK Publishing, [2015]

Description

A chronological book features information on the history of more than 650 artists, as well as details on the major schools and movements of the art world, from Ancient Greece to Pop Art, as well as an extended, detailed focus on 22 masterpieces. --Publisher's description.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jfe16
A visual history of art with information on the artists and their work. Readers can explore Early Art from about 30,000 BCE to 1300 CE. Then investigate the period of Gothic and Early Renaissance, art of the High Renaissance and Mannerism. Then explore the Baroque Era, From Rococo to Neoclassicism,
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and Romantic and Academic Art. Explore Modernism and the Last Fifty Years, from 1970 onward. An interesting short listing of possible future great artists concludes the listings.

The works of more than six-hundred fifty artists are included; art illustrations include a brief description; artist entries include a brief biography and a listing of key works. A definitive glossary is included.

Recommended, especially for those with an interest in art and art history.
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Language

Original publication date

2020

Physical description

416 p.; 25 cm

ISBN

9781465436610

Barcode

99
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