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This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494105891
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Author : Rosie Dickins
Publisher : Educational Development Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9780794525422
Originally published: London: Usborne, 2009.
Author : John Nici
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1442249552
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made this portrait so renowned, commanding such adoration? And what of other works of art that continue to enthrall spectators: What makes the Great Sphinx so great? Why do iterations of The Scream and American Gothic permeate nearly all aspects of popular culture? Is it because of the mastery of the artists who created them? Or can something else account for their popularity? In Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way, John B. Nici looks at twenty well-known paintings, sculptures, and photographs that have left lasting impressions on the general public. As Nici notes, there are many reasons why works of art become famous; few have anything to do with quality. The author explains why the reputations of some creations have grown over the years, some disproportionate to their artistic value. Written in a style that is both entertaining and informative, this book explains how fame is achieved, and ultimately how a work either retains that fame, or passes from the public consciousness. From ancient artifacts to a can of soup, this book raises the question: Did the talent to promote and publicize a work exceed the skills employed to create that object of worship? Or are some masterpieces truly worth the admiration they receive? The creations covered in this book include the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, El Greco’s The Burial of Count Orgaz, Rodin’s The Thinker, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Picasso’s Guernica. Featuring more than sixty images, including color reproductions, Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered if a great painting, sculpture, or photograph, really deserves to be called “great.”
Author : Sarah Courtauld
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780794529239
A set of cards providing facts and figures about famous paintings.
Author : Svetlana Petrova
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0698195159
“It’s official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty.” —The Huffington Post Internet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova’s brilliant Fat Cat Art. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest artworks of all time, Petrova’s paintings are an Internet sensation. Now fans will have the ultimate full-color collection of her work, including several never-before-seen pieces, to savor for themselves or to give as a gift to fellow cat lovers. From competing with Venus’s sexy reclining pose (and almost knocking her off her chaise lounge in the process) in Titian’s Venus of Urbino, to exhibiting complete disdain as he skirts away from God’s pointing finger in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, Zarathustra single-handedly rewrites art history in the way that only an adorable fat cat can.
Author : Susie Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780753447819
Who's in the jungle, prowling through a storm? Who's at the seaside on a busy beach? Who's in the stables, stamping and neighing?With beautifully pitched text wrtitten by Susie Brooks supported bu friendly cartoon-style illustrations, Who's In The Picture? invites young children to explore and interact with art. With paintings by Frida Kahlo, Henri Rousseau, L.S Lowry and many more, this playful search-and-find book encourages readers to examine each painting and to explain, very simply, what is happening in the pictures.Who's in the Picture? has a gallery of images at the end of the book giving further details about each painting, including where the original artwork can be viewed.
Author : Jan Eaton
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Cross-stitch
ISBN : 9780600610366
UNK] Transform the best-loved work of some of the world's most famous artists into cross stitch projects that you will treasure forever; Fifteen beautiful projects based on famous paintings by artists such as Cezanne, Botticelli, Rossetti and Klimt; From a fun spectacles case featuring Mona Lisa's eyes to a glorious interpretation of Van Gogh's Irises, projects include details from pictures and full-size paintings
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Painting
ISBN :
Author : Kelly Grovier
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500295565
An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through an illuminating analysis of the world’s artistic masterpieces. From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (1505–1510) to Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon of astonishing imagery has imprinted itself onto the cultural consciousness of the past 40,000 years. Author Kelly Grovier devotes himself to illuminating these and more than fifty other seminal works in this radical new history of art. Stepping away from biography, style, and the chronology of “isms” that preoccupies most of art history, A New Way of Seeing invites a new interaction with art, one in which we learn from the artworks and not just about them. Grovier identifies that part of the artwork that bridges the divide between art and life and elevates its value beyond the visual to the vital. This book challenges the sensibility that conceives of artists as brands and the works they create as nothing more than material commodities to hoard, hide, and flip for profit. Lavishly illustrated with many of the most breathtaking and enduring artworks ever created, Kelly Grovier casts fresh light on these famous works by daring to isolate a single, and often overlooked, detail responsible for its greatness and power to move.
Author : Julia Ann Clark Shedd
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385499429
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.