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Art that changed the world
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Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid ...
Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.
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- Creator
- chief consultant, Ian Chilvers ; contributors, Iain Zaczek, Jude Welton, Caroline Bugler, Lorrie Mack
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : DK Publishing, 2013
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781465414359, 1465414355
- OCLC
- ocn827841927
- Subtitle on cover: Transformative art movements and the paintings that inspired them.
- Includes indexes.
- Ancient and medieval. Prehistoric art -- Egyptian art -- Greek and Roman art -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- The Dark Ages -- Romanesque and Gothic -- Renaissance and mannerism. Birth of the Renaissance -- Flowering of the Renaissance -- High Renaissance -- Venetian Renaissance -- Northern Renaissance -- Italian mannerism -- Mannerism outside Italy -- Baroque to neoclassicism. Italian Baroque -- Flemish and Spanish Baroque -- Dutch Baroque -- French Baroque -- French rococo -- Rococo outside France -- Neoclassicism -- The 19th century. Romanticism -- Romantic landscape -- Pre-Raphaelites -- Realism -- Impressionism -- Post-impressionism -- Symbolism -- The modern age. Expressionism -- Cubism -- Birth of abstract art -- Dada and surrealism -- Abstract expressionism -- Pop and op art -- Recent abstraction -- The figurative tradition
Subjects
- Art -- History.
- Art movements.
- Painting -- History.
- Art and society.
- Art and literature.
- Art appreciation.
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