Art : a visual history / Robert Cumming.

By: Publisher: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2020Edition: Revised editionDescription: 416 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780241437414 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N5300
Summary: This illustrated book offers a comprehensive guide to western artists, themes, paintings, techniques and stories. Packed full of large, full-colour images of iconic works and lesser-known gems, 'Art' covers over 650 artists, providing an expansive view of art history. Covering every era, from early art in 3000 BCE to contemporary work, with chronological features on the major schools and movements and close-up critical appraisals of 22 masterpieces, this book is a broad but thorough introduction to art history.
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Includes index.

Previous edition: 2005.

This illustrated book offers a comprehensive guide to western artists, themes, paintings, techniques and stories. Packed full of large, full-colour images of iconic works and lesser-known gems, 'Art' covers over 650 artists, providing an expansive view of art history. Covering every era, from early art in 3000 BCE to contemporary work, with chronological features on the major schools and movements and close-up critical appraisals of 22 masterpieces, this book is a broad but thorough introduction to art history.

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