From how to look at works by great masters to explaining key movements, styles, and techniques, this monumental book is the quintessential visual guide to more than 2,500 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures.DK
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From how to look at works by great masters to explaining key movements, styles, and techniques, this monumental book is the quintessential visual guide to more than 2,500 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures.DK
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Fair. No dust jacket. Multiple Copies Available-COVER IS TATTERED WITH EXPOSED CARDBOARD-May have school stamp and/or student names-May have writing and highlighting-DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY CDs OR ACCESS CODES IF APPLICABLE.
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Good. The cover shows wear with possible dents. Some corner dings. The pages show wear that may include evidence of handling, smudges, and edge discoloration (may have edge markings/stains). Note: There is a tear along the bottom back spine.
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Very Good. Size: 10x1x12; Dust jacket has edge bumping and light creasing on spine. Unmarked, pages clean & bright. Good solid binding. Ships Next Business Day.
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Very Good. Size: 10x1x12; This Book is in Very Good condition. See our picture for exact item you will receive. All items ship within 24 hours. Packaging is 100% Recyclable. Most items purchased from Charitable organizations. A portion of each sale is also donated to a monthly charity, check your package for this month's charity. Reuse-Recycle-Rebook!
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0756639727. Stiff unmarked book in illustrated boards in matching dust jacket with half-inch edgetear and two nicks.; 10.25 X 1.82 X 12.1 inches; 612 pages; The definitive visual guide to over 2, 500 paintings and sculptures from around the world, from prehistory to the 21st century. Accessible, engaging, and thoroughly comprehensive, Art shows you how to look at — and understand — works of art, before guiding you chronologically through the milestones of art history. The book opens with a short section detailing how artists use color, composition, light and shade, perspective, and different media to bring their ideas to fruition. Graphics and overlays explain the simple steps required to analyze, and inform your enjoyment of, any work of art. Each artistic movement — from the Italian Renaissance to Impressionism and Pop Art — is clearly explained, alongside its origins and influences, styles and techniques, and typical subject matter. A visual timeline of key works gives an overview of the scope of each major movement. More than 700 artists from all periods and cultures — Western and non-Western, right up to the present day — are profiled alongside key examples of their work. Picture-packed pages help you to identify the characteristics of each artist's work, and follow how it changed through his or her lifetime. Contextual information deepens your understanding of artists' work, life, and times. From Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper to Francis Bacon's Screaming Pope, 22 key works are analyzed at full-page size in terms of composition, story, and techniques. What the artists did to create each work — and how — is revealed with the help of graphics, overlays, and detailed close-ups. Never before has it been so easy to understand artistic aims and methods. Interspersed through the book, double-page features show how different artists have approached the same popular themes. Covering subjects as diverse as love, war, work, and children, these beautiful galleries show how attitudes, styles, and techniques change from one era and culture to another. More than 2, 500 works of art are reproduced in Art's stunning chronological catalog.