The Annotated MONA LISA - A Crash COurse in Art History From Prehistoric gto Pos

Description: The ANNOTATED MONA LISA - A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to {ost-Modern by Carol Strickland, Ph.D. 198 pages "Like music, art is a universal language. Yet, even though looking at most works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate fully what's going on requires certain skills and knowledge. In "Annotated Mona Lisa", 25,000 years of art have been condensed into 198 pages in order to quickly help you train your eye to provide some of the necessary skills and knowledge." The Annotated Mona Lisa takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks to a world of dynamic design, succinct page length essays and instructive sidebars. These graphic devices heighten the reader's ability to retain an impressive amount of information, even through a cursory reading. A brief runthrough of the book's captions and sidebars provides a mini crash course in art history. Incorporating more than 300 illustrations (one-third in full color). The Annotated Mona Lisa draws on the very elements of art - composition, movement, balance, color and design - to achieve a visual and textual approach to the subject that no ordinary textbook could approximate. From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim, from Holbein to Warhol, the language of art is clarified through five sections. 1. The Birth of Art: Prehistoric through Medieval. Roots of painting, sculpture, architecture established.2. The Rebirth of Art: Renaissance and the Baroque. Artists rediscover how to represent human figure realistically, overcome technical limitations.3. The Nineteenth Century: Birth of the "ISMS" France dominates art leadership for the next 200 years as styles come and go.4. The Twentieth Century: Modern Art. Art styles shift each decade, trend toward nonnrepresentational art increases. 5. The Twentieth Century and Beyond: Contemporary Art. Experimentation continues as styles, materials, techniques change rapidly.

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