THINK YOU KNOW BOSCH FROM BOTTICELLI? MONDRIAN FROM MIRO? THINK AGAIN...
Turn art history on its head by testing your brainpower and perception on some the world's most iconic paintings. Journey from ancient Egypt to 1980s New York solving riddles, discovering hidden secrets and challenging your general knowledge.
Esteemed art historian Susie Hodge and leading brain trainer Dr Gareth Moore introduce you to 36 iconic pieces of art - including Botticelli's Primavera, Van Gogh's The Starry Night and Picasso's Guernica. For each painting, they reveal fascinating facts about the work and artist (and give clues on what to look for), before challenging you to decipher the art for yourself through carefully crafted questions. Look at art in new ways as you:
Decode the hieroglyphs from the Book of the Dead.
Find new symbols in The Arnolfini Portrait.
Solve riddles based on The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Navigate M.C. Escher's gravity-defying staircases.
Reassemble the Mondrian.
With over 300 questions, The Art Puzzle Book is designed to entertain and perplex, whether you're an art novice or an art connoisseur.
Featuring artworks by Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Diego Velazquez, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco de Goya, Hiroshige, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Sonia Delaunay, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, M.C. Escher, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and more.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up.
ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. From Gustave Courbet's The Bathers (1853) to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917); Yves Klein's Untitled Anthropometry (1960) to Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party (1974-79); Andres Serrano's Piss Christ (1987) to Banksy's Love is in the Bin (2018) - meet huge egos, uncompromising feminists, gifted recluses, spiritualists, anti-consumerists, activists, satirists and more.
In telling the history of modern and contemporary art through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created, ArtQuake demonstrates the heart of modern art, which is to constantly question and challenge expectation.
Explorez les paysages et les lieux qui ont inspiré le grand art : trouvez la paix dans le jardin de Monet, escaladez le mont Fuji lors d'un pèlerinage avec un artiste de l'ukiyo-e, naviguez avec Gauguin vers le Pacifique Sud pour agrandir vos horizons ou contemplez la lumière et les saisons changeantes sur Chelsea Embankment . Dans ce guide, Susie Hodge, autrice à succès et historienne de l'art, présente 25 destinations artistiques célèbres et oubliées à travers le monde, et les relie aux chefs-d'oeuvre qui les célèbrent.
De la poterie au pointillisme, ce joli livre relève le défi de faire découvrir le monde de l'art aux enfants en 100 mots clés illustrés par Marco Farina. Matériaux, méthodes, styles, courants, la spécialiste Susie Hodge a choisi avec soin les mots qu'il faut pour aller à l'essentiel.
