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Author: Wendy Beckett Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780789468055 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 748
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Chronicles the history of eight hundred years of Western painting, from the Byzantine era to post-modernism, highlighting styles, techniques, media, artists, and themes.
Author: Wendy Beckett Publisher: ISBN: 9780751301335 Category : Painting, American Languages : en Pages : 400
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Through more than 450 masterpieces, the author unfolds the story of 800 years of Western painting from Giotto, the Renaissance and Impressionism, to Pop Art and the present day.
Author: Wendy Beckett Publisher: ISBN: 9780751311891 Category : Painting Languages : en Pages : 736
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Contains over 400 masterpieces of Western painting from the very beginnings of art to the present day. The book includes nearly 200 close-ups to allow the reader to gain knowledge of each work and artist and Sister Wendy Beckett shares her love of painting.
Author: Ernst Hans Gombrich Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780785793427 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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The most famous and popular book on art ever published, this quintessential "introduction to art," now in its sixteenth edition, has been a worldwide bestseller for over four decades.
Author: Wendy Beckett Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780789468055 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 748
Book Description
Chronicles the history of eight hundred years of Western painting, from the Byzantine era to post-modernism, highlighting styles, techniques, media, artists, and themes.
Author: Publisher: DK ISBN: 9781465481788 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Covering [an] ... array of topics--from the first pigments and frescos to linear perspective in Renaissance paintings, the influence of photography, Impressionism, and the birth of modern art--[this book] follows each step in the evolution of painting over the last 25,000 years, from the first cave paintings to the abstract works of the last 150 years"--Publisher's description.
Author: Mick Manning Publisher: Franklin Watts ISBN: 9781445150031 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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A friendly and inspiring introduction to art history, telling the stories of the world's greatest paintings and artists from prehistory to the modern day The Story of Paintings begins with the cave paintings of our Stone Age ancestors and continues through to the modern day. Mick Manning and Brita Granström take your on a tour of their personally selected gallery which showcases the work of some of the world's most famous artists and few a less well-known ones. The artists featured include van Eyck, da Vinci, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Velázquez, JMW Turner, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Georgia O'Keefe, Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Jackson Pollock as well as Dame Laura Knight and Kalan Khan. The friendly text and illustrations help children to appreciate the art, highlighting interesting biographical details and picking out key details to spot. The book's large format means the art is reproduced on a wonderfully impactful scale. This really is a book to give and treasure. The creative team of Mick Manning and Brita Granström are well-known for their ground breaking children's information books. Their many awards range the TES Information Book Award for What's Under the Bed? and the English Association Non-fiction award for Charlie's War Illustrated.
Author: Abigail Wheatley Publisher: Narrative Non Fiction ISBN: 9781409566311 Category : Painting Languages : en Pages : 0
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'The Story of Painting' features a history of Western art, from cave paintings to modern times. Chapters show the main areas of art in sequence, including the Renaissance and Impressionism, and also cover the materials, techniques and artistic innovations of the periods.