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1990
| This second edition of 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.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 history out of the realm of dreary textb....[more] |
2007
| Professors, students, and anyone who loves to read will want this fascinating and attractive volume. Beginning with great works from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, this literary timeline gallops from Mesopotamian pictograms and Julius Caesar'sCommentaries on the Gallicto Renaissance and Baroque masterworks by Machiavelli and Moliere, and on to modernism. Along the way, it presents the birth of the novel, Gothic chills, Thomas Paine's rabble-rousing, as well as landmark French and Russian authors,....[more] |
2001
| This crash course in the history of architecture takes architectural history out of the realm of textbooks and into a world of dynamic design, surveying architecture from Stonehenge to Frank Lloyd Wright and beyond. Page-length essays, sidebars, descriptive captions, and 250 mostly color photos of buildings make it easy for readers to retain information. Discussion encompasses engineering breakthroughs, cultural history, biographical anecdotes, and analysis of corresponding and clashing styles.....[more] |
2006
| Paul Waldman: Eros, Art and Magic~ISBN 88-8158-560-x U.S.70.00 / Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 113 color and 20 b&w. ~Item / March / Art |
2006
| Art is a reflection of the human mind and spirit that helps us understand where we came from and where we might be headed. But few people know how to look at and analyze it. This concise guide makes it easy to learn about the most important and influential works of art throughout history. Full-color illustrations arranged on a groundbreaking timeline format allow you to quickly trace the evolution of artistic schools, movements, and trends. Text entries-color-coded to tell you at a glance where ....[more] |
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