琼诺将桑德罗-波提切利和玛丽-卡萨特、克劳德-莫奈和琼-米切尔、德拉克洛瓦和鲁本斯等艺术家进行了惊人的比较。对巴洛克、浮世绘、涂鸦、立体主义、堕落艺术和 De Stijl 等术语进行了探讨和解释。与其他艺术史书籍相比,该书对非西方传统艺术给予了更多的关注--中国艺术、印度艺术、澳大利亚原住民艺术和非洲艺术都被纳入了时间轴。许多在作者自己的教育过程中被忽视的女艺术家也被重新纳入正典。伴随着朴实无华而又权威的文字,还有数以百计的插图、复制品、时间轴和侧边栏。
his fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing timeline— from Giotto to Leonardo, Frida to Banksy.
When she became interested in painting, the author would visit museums and wonder about all the information she was missing. How did one style develop after another? What meanings were hidden in these works? What were these artists’ lives like? How did their works survive for so many years? She longed for the kind of essential knowledge that would enable her to decode a painting loaded with references. The result of her curiosity is a highly accessible and vividly illustrated book that brings together the fundamentals of eight centuries of art. It covers the basics about such topics as how museums are structured, how painters use proportion and perspective, the anatomy of a painting.
Jouneaux offers surprising comparisons between artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell, Delacroix and Rubens. Terms such as Baroque, Ukiyo-e, Graffiti, Cubism, Degenerate Art, and De Stijl are explored and explained. Non-western traditions are given much greater prominence than in other art history books – Chinese, Indian, Australian Aboriginal, and African Art are all included in the timeline. Numerous women artists who were overlooked during the author’s own education are restored to the canon. Accompanying the unpretentious but authoritative texts are hundreds of illustrations, reproductions, timelines and sidebars.
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