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Art History For Dummies

by Jesse Bryant Wilder

Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let's (Van) Gogh! Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history's greatest painters, sculptors, and architects. In Art History For Dummies, we'll take you on a journey through fine art from all eras, from Cave Art to the Colosseum, and from Michelangelo to Picasso and the modern masters. Along the way, you'll learn about how history has influenced art, and vice versa. This updated edition includes:

  • Brand new material on a wider array of renowned female artists
  • Explorations of the Harlem Renaissance, American Impressionism, and the Precisionists
  • Discussions of art in the 20th and 21st centuries, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and today's eclectic art scene
Is there an exhibition in your town you want to see? Prep before going with Art History For Dummies and show your friends what an Art Smartie you are. An unbeatable reference for anyone looking to build a foundational understanding of art in a historical context, Art History For Dummies is your personal companion that makes fine art even finer!

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Turn your brain into an art academy Art History For Dummies is a time machine that guides you through the most beautiful, shocking, and influential moments in the history of human creativity. You'll learn your Picasso from your Warhol, your Realism from your Rococo--and we'll help you figure out why it all matters, anyway. In this new edition, you'll discover more female artists, the Harlem Renaissance, and additional prominent art movements. Take a deep dive into art history with this full-color book, and impress your friends with how knowledgeable you've become. Inside... Cave paintings and ancient art The classics of Greece and Rome The art of architecture Medieval illuminations and religious art All about the Renaissance American Impressionism and Precisionism 20th century and Postmodern art

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Turn your brain into an art academy Art History For Dummies is a time machine that guides you through the most beautiful, shocking, and influential moments in the history of human creativity. You'll learn your Picasso from your Warhol, your Realism from your Rococo--and we'll help you figure out why it all matters, anyway. In this new edition, you'll discover more female artists, the Harlem Renaissance, and additional prominent art movements. Take a deep dive into art history with this full-color book, and impress your friends with how knowledgeable you've become. Inside... Cave paintings and ancient art The classics of Greece and Rome The art of architecture Medieval illuminations and religious art All about the Renaissance American Impressionism and Precisionism 20th century and Postmodern art

Author Biography

Jesse Bryant Wilder is the founder, publisher, and editor of NEXUS, a series of interdisciplinary textbooks used in high schools around the country. He has written several textbooks on art and art history and was an art critic for The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 2 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Getting Started with Art History 5 Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages 7 Connecting Art Divisions and Culture 8 It's Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? 8 Mesopotamian period (3500 bc–500 bc) and Egyptian period (3100 bc–332 bc) 9 Ancient Greek period (c 850 bc–323 bc) and Hellenistic period (323 bc–32 bc) 9 Roman period (300 bc–ad 476) 9 Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? 10 Byzantine period (ad 500–ad 1453) 10 Islamic period (seventh century+) 10 Medieval period (500–1400) 10 High Renaissance (1495–1520) and Mannerism (1530–1580) 10 Baroque period (1600–1750) and Rococo period (1715–1760s) 11 In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? 11 Neoclassicism (1765–1830) 11 Romanticism (late 1700s–early 1800s) 11 The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror 12 Responding to modern pressures 12 Conceptualizing the craft 13 Expressing mixed-up times 13 Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means 15 Focusing on the Artist's Purpose 15 Recording religion, ritual, and mythology 15 Promoting politics and propaganda 16 When I say jump: Art made for patrons 16 Following a personal vision 17 Detecting Design 17 Perceiving pattern 17 Rolling with the rhythm 17 Weighing the balance 17 Looking for contrast 18 Examining emphasis 18 Decoding Meaning 19 The ABCs of visual narrative 19 Sorting symbols 19 Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements 21 Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement 21 Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements 22 Realism (1840s–1880s) 22 Impressionism (1869–late 1880s) 22 Post-Impressionism (1886–1892) 22 Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century 23 Fauvism and Expressionism 23 Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism 24 Abstract Expressionism (1946–1950s) 25 Pop Art (1960s) 25 Conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art (late 1960s–1970s) 25 Postmodernism (1970–) 25 Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art 27 Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists 29 Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? 30 Hunting on a wall 31 Psychedelic shamans with paintbrushes 31 Flirting with Fertility Goddesses 32 Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture 33 Living in the New Stone Age: Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, and Skara Brae 33 Cracking the mystery of the megaliths and menhirs 34 Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art 37 Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture 38 Zigzagging to Heaven: Ziggurats 38 The Tower of Babel 39 The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture 39 Worshipping graven images 40 Stare-down with God: Statuettes from Abu Temple 40 Playing Puabi's Lyre 41 Unraveling the Standard of Ur 42 Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art 43 Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi's Code 43 Unlocking Assyrian Art 44 Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon 45 Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art 47 Ancient Egypt 101 48 Segmenting the Egyptian periods 48 Thanking the Nile 49 The Art of a Unified Egypt 49 Depicting the unification 49 Noting art as history in the Palette of Narmer 50 The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation 51 Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture 52 Early mastabas and step pyramids 52 Turning to stone 53 Making the architecture great 53 Spending life preparing for death 54 The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism 55 New Kingdom Art 56 Hatshepsut: A female phenom 56 Akhenaten and Egyptian family values 56 Raiding King Tut's tomb treasures 58 Admiring the world's most beautiful dead woman's tomb 59 Decoding Books of the Dead 59 Too-big-to-forget sculpture 61 Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World 63 Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers 64 Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance 66 Kouros to Kritios Boy 66 Golden Age sculptors: Myron, Polykleitos, and Phidias 68 Fourth-century sculpture 70 Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting 71 Cool stick figures: The geometric style 71 Black-figure and red-figure techniques 72 Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture 73 Greece without Borders: Hellenism 76 Sculpting passion and struggle 76 Honoring the classical in a new world 77 Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me! 79 The Mysterious Etruscans 79 Temple to tomb: Greek influence 79 Smiles in stone: The eternally happy Etruscans 80 Infusing Art with Roman Influence 80 Linking the territory that was Rome 82 Art as mirror: Roman realism and Republican sculptural portraits 82 Progressing on to propaganda 83 Shirking idealism for authenticity 84 Realism in painting 85 Roman mosaics 86 Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering 87 Temple of Portunus 87 Maison Carrée 88 Roman aqueducts 88 The Colosseum 88 The Pantheon 90 Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: ad 500–ad 1760 93 Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art 95 The Rise and Fall of Constantinople 95 Christianizing Rome 96 After the fall: Divisions and schisms 96 Early Christian Art in the West 96 Rejecting paganism 97 Drawing on Roman art and culture 97 Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor 98 Justinian and Early Byzantine architecture 98 Amazing mosaics: Puzzle art 100 San Vitale: Justinian and Theodora mosaics 101 The mosaics of St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy (Middle Byzantine) 103 Icons and iconoclasm 103 Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God 106 The Mosque of Córdoba 107 The dazzling Alhambra 109 A temple of love: The Taj Mahal 110 Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art 113 Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts 114 A unique Christian mission 114 Browsing the Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, and other manuscripts 114 Drolleries and the fun style 116 Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance 117 Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry 117 Providing a battle blueprint 117 Portraying everyday life in medieval England and France 118 Peddling political propaganda 119 Making border crossings 119 Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat 120 St Sernin 120 Durham Cathedral 121 Romanesque Sculpture 122 Nightmares in stone: Romanesque relief 123 Roman sculpture revival 123 Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers 123 Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar 125 Building a church-and-state alliance 125 Bigger and brighter 125 Making something new from old parts 126 Finishing touches and voilà! 127 Expanding the Gothic dream 127 Stained-Glass Storytelling 127 Gothic Sculpture 128 Italian Gothic 129 Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto 130 Cimabue 130 Duccio 132 Giotto 133 Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny 134 Themes of love and desire? 134 Themes with religious connotation? 135 The questions remain 136 Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance 137 The Early Renaissance in Central Italy 138 The Great Door Contest: Brunelleschi versus Ghiberti — And the winner is! 138 The Duomo of Florence 139 Vanishing points and perspective 140 Sandro Botticelli: A garden-variety Venus 144 Donatello: Putting statues back on their feet 145 The High Renaissance 146 Reviving self-respect 146 Elevating humanity in art 147 Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man 147 Leonardo's techniques 147 Leonardo's greatest works 148 Michelangelo: The main man 150 Michelangelo's greatest works 152 Raphael: The prince of painters 153 Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North 157 A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance 158 First stop, Bellini 158 A shortcut to Mantegna and Giorgione 160 Dürer's Venice vacations 161 Touring the 16th century with Titian 162 The Venice of Veronese 164 Tintoretto and Renaissance ego 165 La Tintoretta: Marietta Robusti 166 Palladio: The king of classicism 167 Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism 168 Jan van Eyck: The Late Gothic ace 168 Rogier van der Weyden: Front and center 169 Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany 172 Decoding Bosch 172 Deciphering the dark symbolism of Grünewald 174 Dining with Bruegel the Elder 175 Chapter 13: Art That'll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism 177 Detecting the Non-Rules of Mannerism 177 Pontormo: Front and Center 178 Bronzino's Background Symbols and Scene Layering 179 Parmigianino: He's Not a Cheese! 180 Contrasting proportions and balance 181 A surreal feel 181 Arcimboldo: À la Carte Art 182 Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625): Invading Art History's Guys' Club 183 Finding a place in the Spanish court 183 Rubbing elbows with the court painters 184 El Greco: Stretched to the Limit 185 Evolving a unique Mannerist style 185 Drawing inspiration from mysticism 185 How unappreciated was El Greco? 186 Lavinia Fontana: The First Professional Female Painter 187 Applying a rich education and broad network 187 Supplying the missing female storyline 187 Endowing Jesus with more humanity 188 Finding Your Footing in Giulio Romano's Palazzo Te 189 Architectural surprises outside 190 An inside to die for 190 Chapter 14: When the Renaissance Went Baroque 193 Baroque Origin, Purpose, and Style 194 Annibale Carracci: Heavenly Ceilings 194 Shedding Light on the Subject: Caravaggio and His Followers 195 Elements of Caravaggio style 195 Caravaggio style applied 196 Orazio Gentileschi: Baroque's gentle side, more or less 197 Shadow and light dramas: Artemisia Gentileschi 197 Elisabetta Sirani and an Art School for Women 199 Sirani's notable career 199 Portraying brave and capable women 200 The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Bernini Sculpture 202 Embracing Baroque Architecture 203 Maderno and the launch of Baroque architecture 203 Bernini: Transforming St Peter's Basilica 203 Baroque style migrates northward 204 Fischer: Harmonizing Baroque style 204 Dutch and Flemish Realism 205 Rubens: Fleshy, flashy, and holy 206 Rembrandt: Self-portraits and life in the shadows 207 Laughing with Hals 209 Bold Strokes: Judith Leyster 209 Vermeer: Musicians, maids, and girls with pearls 212 French Flourish and Baroque Light Shows 213 Poussin the Perfect 213 Candlelit reverie and Georges de La Tour 213 Versailles: Architecture as propaganda and the Sun King 214 In the Limelight with Caravaggio: The Spanish Golden Age 215 Ribera and Zurbarán: In the shadow of Caravaggio 215 Velázquez: Kings and princesses 216 Chapter 15: Going Loco with Rococo 219 What You Get in Rococo Art 220 Breaking with Baroque: Antoine Watteau 221 Fragonard and Boucher: Lush, Lusty, and Lavish 222 François Boucher 222 Jean-Honoré Fragonard 222 Flying High: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 223 Rococo Lite: The Movement in England 223 William Hogarth 224 Thomas Gainsborough 224 Sir Joshua Reynolds 226 Part 4: The Industrial Revolution Revs Up Art's Evolution: 1760–1900 229 Chapter 16: All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art 231 When Philosophers and Artists Join Forces 232 The promotion of reason 232 Enlightened views and political progress 232 Angelica Kauffman: The Queen of Neoclassicism 233 Focusing on women and brother- or sisterhood 233 Not everyone loved the depictions 235 Jacques-Louis David: The King of Neoclassicism 235 Grand, formal, and retro 236 Propagandist for all sides 237 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Prince of Neoclassical Portraiture 238 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Portraitist of the Queen and Fashion Setter 239 Illustrating fashion trends 240 Fleeing for her life 241 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: From Ideal to Real and Royals to Revolutionaries 241 Starting with socially acceptable miniatures 242 Graduating to sizeable self-portraiture 242 Working with the Revolutionaries 243 Canova and Houdon: Greek Grace and Neoclassical Sculpture 243 Antonio Canova: Ace 18th-century sculptor 243 Jean-Antoine Houdon: In living stone 244 Chapter 17: Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out 247 Kissing Isn't Romantic, but Having a Heart Is 247 Romancing independence 248 Romancing spirituality 248 Romancing the wild 249 Far Out with William Blake and Henry Fuseli: Personal Mythologies 249 Unifying body and soul 249 Drawing on imagination 250 Inside Out: Caspar David Friedrich 251 The Revolutionary French Romantics: Gericault and Delacroix 252 Théodore Gericault 252 Eugène Delacroix 253 Francisco Goya and the Grotesque 255 J. M. W. Turner Sets the Skies on Fire 257 Rebels with a Cause 260 Courbet and Daumier: Painting Peasants and Urban Blight 261 Gustave Courbet 261 Honoré Daumier: Guts and grit 262 The Barbizon School and the Great Outdoors 263 Jean-François Millet: The noble peasants 263 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: From naked truth to dressed-up reality 264 Rosa Bonheur: From a Horse Fair to Buffalo Bill 265 Portraying the Paris horse fair 266 Gaining world-wide renown 267 Keeping It Real in America 267 Along came Thomas Cole 267 Westward ho! with Albert Bierstadt 269 George Catlin, painter of western Indian tribes 271 Edmonia Lewis 272 Navigating sun, storm, and sea with Winslow Homer 272 Boating through America with Thomas Eakins 273 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Medieval Visions and Painting Literature 273 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Leader of the Pre-Raphaelites 274 Marie Spartali Stillman: From model to artist 275 John Everett Millais and soft-spoken symbolism 276 The Ten: America's First Art Movement 276 Celebrating the leisure class 277 Creating art for art's sake 278 Ashcan Artists: Capturing the Grit of Urban Life 278 Presenting the urban underbelly 278 Illustrating the rough life 279 Chapter 19: First Impressions: Impressionism 281 M & M: Manet and Monet 282 Édouard Manet: Breaking the rules 283 Claude Monet: From patches to flecks 284 Pretty Women and Painted Ladies: Renoir and Degas 286 Impressionists and the movement's midlife crisis 287 Pretty as a picture: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 287 The dancers of Edgar Degas 288 Cassatt, Morisot, and Other Female Impressionists 289 Mary Cassatt 290 Berthe Morisot 291 Eva Gonzalès 292 American Impressionism 293 William Merritt Chase: An Impressionist with Realist ties 293 Frieseke in the Giverny American Art Colony 294 Jane Peterson 295 Chapter 20: Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists 297 You've Got a Point: Pointillism, Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac 297 Observing the science of color 297 Applying the science of color 298 Red-Light Art: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 299 Tracking the "Noble Savage": Paul Gauguin 300 Brittany paintings 301 Tahiti paintings 302 Gauguin's influence 302 Painting Energy: Vincent van Gogh 303 Trading the ministry for art 303 Expanding artistic energy 303 Painting while confined 304 Love Cast in Stone: Rodin and Claudel 304 Auguste Rodin 305 Camille Claudel 306 The Mask behind the Face: James Ensor 306 The Hills Are Alive with Geometry: Paul Cézanne 308 Art Nouveau: Curves, Swirls, and Asymmetry 309 Art Nouveau: Not a painting style 309 Making functionality pretty 310 Fairy-Tale Fancies and the Sandcastle Cathedral of Barcelona: Antoni Gaudí 310 Part 5: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art 313 Chapter 21: From Fauvism to Expressionism 315 Fauvism: Colors Fighting like Animals 315 Henri Matisse 316 André Derain 317 Maurice de Vlaminck 317 German Expressionism: Form Based on Feeling 318 Die Brücke and World War I 318 Der Blaue Reiter 321 Austrian Expressionism: From Dream to Nightmare 324 Gustav Klimt and his languorous ladies 325 Egon Schiele: Turning the self inside out 325 Oskar Kokoschka: Dark dreams and interior storms 326 Chapter 22: Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists 329 Cubism: All Views At Once 329 Pablo Picasso 330 Analytic Cubism: Breaking things apart 332 Synthetic Cubism: Gluing things together 332 Fernand Léger: Cubism for the commoner 333 Futurism: Art That Broke the Speed Limit 333 Umberto Boccioni 335 Gino Severini 335 Precisionism: Geometry as Art 336 The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age 338 Chapter 23: Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism 343 Suprematism: Kazimir Malevich's Reinvention of Space 343 The path to Suprematism 344 Reinventing the world in shape and color 344 Constructivism: Showing Off Your Skeleton 345 Tatlin's Tower 346 A dance between time and space: Naum Gabo 346 Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl Movement 347 Dada Turns the World on Its Head 347 Dada, the ground floor, and Cabaret Voltaire 348 Dada: Influencee and influencer 348 Marcel Duchamp: Nudes, urinals, and hat racks 349 Hans (Jean) Arp: In and out of Dadaland 350 Surrealism and Disjointed Dreams 351 Max Ernst and his alter ego, Loplop 351 Salvador Dalí: Melting clocks, dreamscapes, and ants 352 René Magritte: Help, my head's on backwards! 354 Dissecting Frida Kahlo 354 Joan Miro 356 My House Is a Machine: Modernist Architecture 357 Frank Lloyd Wright: Bringing the outside in 357 Bauhaus boxes: Walter Gropius 359 Le Corbusier: Machines for living and Notre-Dame du Haut 359 Abstract Expressionism: Fireworks on Canvas 361 Arshile Gorky 361 Jackson Pollock: Flick, fling, drip, splash, swirl — action painting 362 Lee Krasner: Almost patterns 363 Willem de Kooning 364 Chapter 24: Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties 365 Artsy Cartoons: Pop Art 365 The many faces of Andy Warhol 366 Blam! Comic books on canvas: Roy Lichtenstein 367 Fantastic Realism 368 Ernst Fuchs: The father of the Fantastic Realists 368 Hundertwasser: Organic architecture and art 369 Louise Nevelson: Picking up the Trash and Assemblage 370 Louise Bourgeois: Sexualized sculpture 371 Less-Is-More Art: Rothko, Newman, Stella, Frankenthaler, and Others 372 Color Fields of dreams: Rothko and Newman 372 Helen Frankenthaler 373 Minimalism, more or less 373 Photorealism 374 Richard Estes: Always in focus 374 Clinical close-ups: Chuck Close 375 Helen Hardin: Native American Futurism 375 Performance Art and Installations 376 Fluxus: Intersections of the arts 376 Joseph Beuys: Fanning out from Fluxus 377 Carolee Schneemann: Body art and breaking taboos 378 Chapter 25: Photography: From Science to Art 381 The Birth of Photography 381 Transitioning from Science to Art 382 An early attempt to "artify" photography 383 Focusing on documentary photography 384 Alfred Stieglitz: Reliving the Moment 384 Recognition for photography as high art 385 Picturesque pictures 385 Henri Cartier-Bresson's uncanny eye 386 From painting to photography 386 Stealth and the "Decisive Moment" 386 Group f/64: Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Ansel Adams 387 Dorothea Lange: Depression to Dust Bowl 388 Margaret Bourke-White: From Industrial Beauty to Political Statements 389 Photographing for Fortune 389 Photographing for Life 389 Fast-Forward: The Next Generation 391 Chapter 26: The New World: Postmodern Art 393 From Modern Pyramids to Titanium Twists: Postmodern Architecture 393 Viva Las Vegas! 394 Chestnut Hill: Case in point 394 Philip Johnson and urban furniture 395 The prismatic architecture of I M Pei 395 Deconstructivist architecture of Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid 396 Making It or Faking It? Postmodern Photography and Painting 399 Cindy Sherman: Morphing herself 399 Gerhard Richter: Reading between the layers 400 Installation Art and Earth Art 401 Judy Chicago: A dinner table you can't sit at 401 It's a wrap: Christo and Jeanne-Claude 402 Robert Smithson and earth art: Can you dig it? 403 Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies and Living, Genetic Art 404 Part 6: The Part of Tens 407 Chapter 27: Ten Must-See Art Museums 409 The Louvre (Paris) 409 The Uffizi (Florence) 410 The Vatican Museums (Rome) 410 The National Gallery (London) 410 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) 410 The Prado (Madrid) 411 The National Gallery of Art (D.C.) 411 The Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) 411 British Museum (London) 412 The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) 412 Chapter 28: Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists 413 On Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci 413 Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari 413 Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo 414 The Journal of Eugène Delacroix 414 Van Gogh's Letters 414 Rodin on Art, by Paul Gsell 414 Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, edited by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc 414 Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky 415 The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 415 Hundertwasser Architecture: For a More Human Architecture in Harmony with Nature, by Friedensreich Hundertwasser 415 And Others 415 Index 417

Details ISBN1119868661 Language English Year 2022 Edition 2nd ISBN-10 1119868661 ISBN-13 9781119868668 Format Paperback DEWEY 709 Country of Publication United States Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Place of Publication New York Replaces 9780470099100 Pages 448 NZ Release Date 2022-04-19 UK Release Date 2022-04-19 Author Jesse Bryant Wilder Edition Description 2nd edition Publication Date 2022-06-21 Imprint For Dummies US Release Date 2022-06-21 AU Release Date 2022-03-31 Audience General

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