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An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format.
This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated from the second edition published in 2007, including a new chapter about recent artists and movements. 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 the Present takes art education out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes the history of art movements accessible to beginning art museum-goers—even at a cursory reading.
From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from African art to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections (prehistoric and medieval, renaissance and baroque, the nineteenth century, modern art, and contemporary art) covering a little more than 230 pages.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing; Revised edition (January 9, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 232 pages
ISBN-10 : 1449482139
ISBN-13 : 978-1449482138
Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
Dimensions : 8.8 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches
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Customers find the book a useful resource for learning about art history. They appreciate the good illustrations and pictures. The organization is well-designed, making it easy to organize the information in their heads. Many customers consider it a good value for money. However, opinions differ on readability – some find it easy to read and well-written, while others describe the text as jumbled and poorly spaced.
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