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Sep 7, 2023 · Using generous illustrations and approachable language, the book tells the story of a revolutionary era that transformed our thinking about the world and art’s place in it.
100 Best Art History Books of All Time. We've researched and ranked the best art history books in the world, based on recommendations from world experts, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. Learn more. Featuring recommendations from Brad Feld, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, and 56 other experts. 1.
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The term art history applies to a very large field of inquiry. Books about art history range from broad brush chronologies that cover thousands of years of artistic development, to focused analyses of specific art periods, artists, or artworks. There are art historians who examine the lives, work, and influences of artists. There are some who speci...
What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail by Rainer and Rose-Marie Hagen
This book demonstrates how art historians decode artworks. The authors analyze and explain the use of symbolism and the expressive potential of visual elements used by artists when creating artwork. They do so in a thoroughly engaging and easily understandable way. Each of the artworks discussed is beautifully illustrated with multiple images of enlarged detail sections. This is amongst the most informative set of descriptions of a selection of artworks available in book form. Once you’ve rea...
Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Global History by Fred S. Kleiner
The 16thedition of this canonical book builds on everything that has made it an indispensable art history textbook for generations. In keeping with Helen Gardner’s 1926 original, this book is organized in chronological terms but with an even more expansive geographical scope. The book’s encyclopedic quality makes it an ideal reference tool. It enables a clear understanding of art periods and styles within their immediate and broader contexts, and the inclusion of art from across the globe ena...
The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich
An update of a seminal book by one of the world’s most famous art historians. This redesigned version boasts a new format, and improved illustrations and index. The Story of Art provides an erudite and well researched introduction to the history of art in an easy and welcoming tone. It is a comprehensive chronological narrative comparable to Gardner’s Art through the Ages.Gombrich’s aim was less to write a textbook than to speak directly to the non-academic newcomer to art. The book does so v...
We hope you have found our small sample of books about art history informative. Our intention was to demonstrate the large variety of art historical approaches out there and the diversity of books available on the subject. Once you get to areas of specialization, such painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, video art, installation, ...
Aug 1, 2020 · The western canon of art as “the history of a handful of lonely men who had the courage and the persistence to think for themselves, to examine conventions fearlessly and critically and thus to create new possibilities for their art”
Oct 19, 2021 · Fascinating sidebar stories. Photographs of artifacts & landscapes. Art works depicting dramatic scenes. Visually driven, rich and far-reaching yet friendly and browsable, with iconic National Geographic maps, illustrations, and images enhancing the pages, this new book is a history-lover’s dream.
- Jean-Pierre Isbouts
From artists who reimagined what art could look like to paintings that introduced tropes that would be revisited for centuries to come, these 10 works make remarkable statements about the societies in which they were produced and the generations of art that followed.
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From the Babylonian Empire to the Persian Gulf War, from the Xia and Shang Dynasties of Bronze Age China to the new space race, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the digital age―here, in vivid color and crisp narrative, is the sweeping story of the history of civilization.
- Jean-Pierre Isbouts
