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How To Think Like an Artist
Painters and Sculptors Who Have Changed The Way We See The World
Series: How To Think
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An illuminating guide to history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo – and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly. How did the greatest artists in history look at the world through new eyes? And...
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An illuminating guide to history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo – and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly.
An illuminating guide to history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo – and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly.
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An illuminating guide to history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo – and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly.
How did the greatest artists in history look at the world through new eyes? And what can we learn from the imagination, boldness and originality of their art? From the allusive frescos of the Renaissance to the cool irony of conceptual art in the 20th century, How To Think Like an Artist is the ultimate guide to the greatest artists of the human age.
Curator and writer Catherine Daunt interweaves the lives and loves of these great artists with moving and enlightening descriptions of their most famous and important works. This book takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through the greatest art of all time and shows us how we can understand and interpret them.
Daunt re-examines the canon, traditionally dominated by Western, white and male artists, and makes space for major figures from other cultures and traditions, as well as those who have been traditionally overlooked because of their gender or class. Every artist in this book has made a revolutionary contribution to art, changing the way that we view, depict and navigate our world.
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An illuminating guide to history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo – and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly. How did the greatest artists in history look at the world through new eyes? And what can we learn from the imagination, boldness and originality of their art? From...Hardback$3899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781399422925
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Illustration: An 8-page plate colour section
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 218.0mm
Weight: 429g
Pages: 304
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Catherine Daunt is an art historian and curator with a focus on modern and contemporary works on paper. She is currently the curator of modern and contemporary prints at the British Museum and has previously worked at the National Portrait Gallery, London and Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
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