The Short Story of Art est une bonne introduction à l'Histoire de l'Art. Constuite simplement, elle présente 50 oeuvres clés, des peintures rupestres de Lascaux à des installations contemporaines, et les relie, section par section, aux grands mouvements, thèmes, et techniques artistiques.
Poursuite de la série à succès Short Story qui propose une approche accessible de l'Histoire de l'Art, cette fois-ci concentrée sur les artistes femmes.
Why did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt obsess over painting his own image? What's the secret behind the Terracotta Army, or Andy Warhol's soup cans? Art: Explained offers straightforward and satisfying answers to 100 of these fascinating questions. If you've ever looked at an art masterpiece in awe, but wondered just what it means, here is your guide.
Drawing Masterclass explore les oeuvres des plus grands artistes décrit comment leur travail a été créé. Avec des analyses détaillées et des sections d'instructions créatives instructives, il invite le lecteur à transmettre le mouvement comme Degas, appliquer l'acrylique comme Twombly et commander la couleur comme Matisse. Organisé en sept chapitres couvrant des genres importants: nus, figures, paysages, natures mortes, visages, fantasmes et abstractions, chaque chapitre choisit une section d'artistes et examine leur pratique en détail, en utilisant des oeuvres clés. Un profil biographique détaillé présente les artistes, leurs oeuvres, leurs techniques...
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.
Brimming with upbeat guidance, this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and anxieties.
Visual art is enlightening, challenging, informative and arresting; but it can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face in our lives.
This guide introduces readers to new ways of looking at a wide range of art. Through careful examination and explanation, it investigates how engaging with art and drawing upon its ideas can help everyone feel connected and inspired. From Frida Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse embracing happiness, from Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin finding hope, it shows how you too can use art to work through difficult emotions and improve your mental wellbeing. Even art that unsettles can help us to think and feel differently.
Artists have been conveying aspirations, emotions, ideas and stories for thousands of years; this book will help everyone to 'read' these messages, and thereby to enrich their own emotional life through art.
Avec les reproductions de 100 oeuvres d'art qui se sont attirées les foudres du public, Susie Hodge lutte pied à pied contre les idées reçues et prouve que l'art n'est pas - et n'a jamais été - un jeu d'enfants.
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.
The perfect guide to the most important ideas and concepts that underpin Western art: Romanesque; Byzantine; International Gothic; Early Renaissance; High Renaissance; Northern Renaissance; Mannerism; Baroque; Caravaggism; Dutch Golden Age; Rococo; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; Academic Art; Orientalism; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Realism; Impressionism; Symbolism; Post-Impressionism; Neo-Impressionism; Synthetism/Primitivism/Les Nabis; Fauvism; Expressionism; Art Nouveau and Secessionism; Cubism; Orphism; Futurism; Dadaism; Surrealism; Magic(al) Realism; Suprematism; Constructivism; Bauhaus; South American Muralism; Neo-plasticism; New Objectivity; American Scene Painting; Socialist Realism; Abstract Expressionism; Colour Field; Minimalism; Pop Art; Op Art; Conceptual Art; Performance Art including Fluxus; Installation Art; Land and Environmental Art; Hyperrealism; Pluralism.
Why are some designs more successful and influential than others? WHAT MAKES GREAT DESIGN showcases eighty exceptional creations, from the Polaroid Land camera and the Sony Walkman to the Coca- Cola bottle and Converse All Stars.
The perfect compact reference guide for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major artistic cultures, movements, phases, developments, artists and themes, from Prehistoric art to Hyperrealism. Contents also include Greek classicism, Gothic art, the Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Cubism, surrealism, Pop art and Minimalism.
@2@In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history and theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present day. Along the way she profiles 200 key buildings, historic styles, architectural movements and celebrated architects from all around the world. @3@@2@Contents include @20@the@21@ @20@Greek orders, Roman engineering, Gothic architecture, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Revivalism, Art Nouveau, Modernism @21@and@20@ Postmodernism, Futurism @21@and@20@ Dynamic architecture @21@along with architects like @20@Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier @21@and@20@ Frank Gehry.@21@@3@
