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Simon SchamaPublication Details
Book1st edEcco2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N5300 .S24 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
“Great art has dreadful manners,” Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever. Most compelling of all, The Power of Art traces the extraordinary evolution of eight “eye-popping” world-class works of art. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "This book is published to accompany the television series Simon Schama’s Power of Art, created by BBC Arts and first broadcast on BBC2 in 2006"–T.p. verso
- "Published in Great Britain in 2006 by BBC Books"–T.p. verso
Contents
- Caravaggio : painting gets physical
- Bernini : the miracle worker
- Rembrandt : rough stuff in the halls of the rich
- David : airbrushing the Revolution
- Turner : painting up a storm
- Van Gogh : painting from inside the head
- Picasso : modern art goes political
- Rothko : the music of beyond in the city of glitter
ISBN
- 0061176109
- 9780061176104
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