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Isms: Understanding Art
Revised Edition, Updated 2017 Isms: Understanding Art is the perfect pocket-sized guide for gallery and museum lovers...
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Revised Edition, Updated 2017 Isms: Understanding Art is the perfect pocket-sized guide for gallery and museum lovers who have a general interest in the arts, but not necessarily any formal education in the visual arts. With this portable and indispensable tool in hand, anyone can guide themselves through the world's prestigious museums and major art collections and recognize and intelligently discuss the significant movements that have shaped the world of art.
Using an informative and engaging style with informal and direct tone, each of the numerous isms that are used to define-but often misleadingly cloud-art movements are explained in simple terms and made accessible to the casual art lover. Readers are encouraged to think of styles as useful tools for conversation and exploration rather than as hard and fast academic definitions, and to relate to the art itself rather than to a merely conceptual idea.
Each spread is devoted to a single art historical period and begins with an introduction that explains when the movement first emerged, the historical period to which it applies, and the principal disputes over its applicability, usefulness, or significance. The rest of the chapter is divided into several sections illustrating the most important artists and works within the period, related key words, and illustrations that best represent the distinctive features. This comprehensible structure makes it possible for any reader to gain a clear understanding of Classicism or Cubism while sitting in a cafe or visiting a gallery.
Author: Stephen Little
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Published: 11/13/2004
Pages: 159
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.58w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780789312099
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2004 pg. 699
Choice 03/01/2005 pg. 1216
About the Author
Steven Little contributes articles and reviews to a number of fine art magazines and journals. He specializes in postwar British art and sculpture and is currently Web Editor for The Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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Using an informative and engaging style with informal and direct tone, each of the numerous isms that are used to define-but often misleadingly cloud-art movements are explained in simple terms and made accessible to the casual art lover. Readers are encouraged to think of styles as useful tools for conversation and exploration rather than as hard and fast academic definitions, and to relate to the art itself rather than to a merely conceptual idea.
Each spread is devoted to a single art historical period and begins with an introduction that explains when the movement first emerged, the historical period to which it applies, and the principal disputes over its applicability, usefulness, or significance. The rest of the chapter is divided into several sections illustrating the most important artists and works within the period, related key words, and illustrations that best represent the distinctive features. This comprehensible structure makes it possible for any reader to gain a clear understanding of Classicism or Cubism while sitting in a cafe or visiting a gallery.
Author: Stephen Little
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Published: 11/13/2004
Pages: 159
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.58w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780789312099
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2004 pg. 699
Choice 03/01/2005 pg. 1216
About the Author
Steven Little contributes articles and reviews to a number of fine art magazines and journals. He specializes in postwar British art and sculpture and is currently Web Editor for The Royal Academy of Arts in London.
This title is only available via back order
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