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Art : a new history / Paul Johnson

By:

Johnson, Paul

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins , c2003Edition: 1st editionDescription: 777 p. : illus. ; 27 cmISBN:

9780060530754

Subject(s):

Art -- -History

DDC classification:

709 JOH

LOC classification:

N5300 .J64 2003

Summary: This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, Paul Johnson draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas. He puts the creative originality of the individual at the heart of his story. He pays particular attention to key periods: the emergence of the artistic personality in the Renaissance, the new realism of the early seventeenth century, the discovery of landscape painting as a separate art form, and the rise of ideological art. He notes the division of 'fashion art' and fine art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it has now widened. Over 300 colour illustrations.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	709 JOH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		019880

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Previous	708.7 HER The Hermitage : selected treasures from one of the world's great museums	709 ARN A history of Modern Art: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography	709 HOC Hockney on art : conversations with Paul Joyce	709 JOH Art : a new history	709 ROT Style in art ; the dynamics of art as cultural expression	709.01 GIR Magic of a people = El encanto de un pueblo	709.0214 DUR Byzantine art	Next

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This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, Paul Johnson draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas. He puts the creative originality of the individual at the heart of his story. He pays particular attention to key periods: the emergence of the artistic personality in the Renaissance, the new realism of the early seventeenth century, the discovery of landscape painting as a separate art form, and the rise of ideological art. He notes the division of 'fashion art' and fine art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it has now widened. Over 300 colour illustrations.

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