| The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst Contributor(s): Gayford, Martin (Editor), Wright, Karen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0802137202 ISBN-13: 9780802137203 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2000 Annotation: A collection of thoughts and ideas about art spanning thousands of years, from Pliny the Elder to Picasso. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - History |
| Dewey: 700 |
| LCCN: 00-34743 |
| Physical Information: 1.33" H x 6.02" W x 9.04" (1.83 lbs) 640 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks, many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but novelists, poets, gossips, artists, and essayists. In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes it art. From the deadly serious to the deeply witty, from the sublime to the ridiculous, The Grove Book of Art Writing is an eloquent compendium of insight into the diverse ways the visual arts can be seen and thought about. |
