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The Annotated Mona Lisa
Carol Strickland
John Boswell
其他書名
A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
出版
Andrews McMeel Publishing
, 2007-10
主題
Art / General
Art / History / General
Art / History / Prehistoric
Art / Reference
ISBN
0740768727
9780740768729
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n39T-zRGI90C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Carol Strickland's
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.
"Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge."--Carol Strickland, from the introduction to
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs,
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
takes art education out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes the history of art movements accessible to beginning art museum-goers - even at a cursory reading. From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from African art to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections (prehistoric and medieval, renaissance and baroque, the nineteenth century, modern art, and contemporary art) covering a little more than 200 pages.