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Title: Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work by Robert Cumming ISBN: 0-7894-2391-X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A gorgeous and informative book!
Comment: This oversized book has dovoted 2 pages to each important artist from the 1400's to Jackson Pollock. As with all D-K books, the reproductions are wonderful and the information is fascinating. The arthor gives a mixture of facts about the artist's life, painting of the period, key works of the painter, and other events happening in the world at the time. I love this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Attractive Overview
Comment: Teachers commonly say that they learn more about a subject from teaching it than from being a student. In part this is because so much of what we practice is unspoken and intuitive, while teaching requires a certain explicitness and may be most effective when the essence of a subject is portrayed in a simple, impassioned, and powerful way. As a result, one can often learn a lot from brief, introductory overviews of a subject, as is the intention of this attractive, large-format picture book. Several years ago, the author (who is head of the education division at ChristieÕs) wrote Annotated Art (1994), a companion volume in which diagrams, close-ups, and marginal notes were used to analyze 45 key paintings; and, since then, a similar book was produced by the same publisher about the history of architecture (Neil Stevenson, Architecture (1997)). In this third volume in the series, 50 more paintings (different from those in the earlier book), are arranged chronologically, displayed, and discussed in annotations, using introductory paragraphs, marginal notes, biographical highlights, related works, quotes by and about the artists, and short lists of non-art concurrent events. While the result is necessarily superficial, it is also a welcoming, valuable way to be introduced to art history. (Review from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol 14 No 2, Winter 1998-99)
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Title: Art: The World's Greatest Paintings Explored and Explained by Robert Cumming ISBN: 1564588483 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland, John Boswell ISBN: 0836280059 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Art: A World History by Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 078948904X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Architecture: The World's Greatest Buildings Explored and Explained by Neil Stevenson, Neil Slevenson ISBN: 0789419653 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton ISBN: 0415148901 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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