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Look At This If You Love Great Art
A critical curation of 100 essential artworks • Packed with links to further reading, listening and viewing to take your enjoyment to the next level
Series: If You Love
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The book blends a diverse selection of styles, mediums, and movements, from Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary provocations, highlighting both celebrated icons and overlooked gems. It covers major art genres including Abstraction, Pop Art, Surrealism, and Impressionism, providing readers with a fresh, nuanced perspective on the art that shapes our cultural heritage.
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This book is ideal for passionate art lovers, students, and anyone keen to deepen their understanding of art history and its ongoing influence. It suits readers who appreciate both classic and avant-garde expressions of creativity.
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Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must-read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, it offers a collection of insightful summaries on just what makes each piece so vital.
Art writer Chloë Ashby guides you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind them and offering her considered take on why each work should be regarded as a pinnacle of artistic endeavour.
With entries curated to provide a unique juxtaposition of styles, mediums, and schools of art, expect a contemporary take on classic artworks. Here, titans of art history cross paths with under-appreciated examples from outside the traditional canon, and rebellious visionaries blaze trails that still influence today's cutting-edge artists.
Covering all the most important genres of art—Abstraction, Pop Art, Surrealism, Renaissance art, Impressionism, and more—this engaging summary focuses only on artworks that truly matter, and the reasons why you must see them.
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Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must-read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, it offers a collection of insightful summaries on just what makes each piece so vital. Art writer Chloë Ashby guides you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind...Hardback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780711256064
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 June 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Ivy Press
Illustration: 100 colour photos
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 165.0mm
Height: 225.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
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Since graduating from the Courtauld Institute of Art, Chloe Ashby has written about art and culture for publications such as the TLS, Guardian, FT Life & Arts, 1843 and frieze. She has interviewed artist Judy Chicago, novelist Ottessa Moshfegh, photographer Tim Walker and fashion designer Christian Louboutin, among others. A former editor at Monocle, she has written and edited guides to cities from Chicago to Seoul, and has also co-authored a book on Roth Bar & Grill, published by Phaidon.
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