Preço Livro - Modern Art: a Very Short Introduction

Public Interest In Modern Art Continues To Grow, as Witnessed By The Spectacular Success Of The Tate Modern In London And The Bilbao Guggenheim. Modern Art: a Very Short Introduction Engages General Readers, Offering Them Not Only Information And Ideas About Modern Art, But Also Explaining Its Contemporary Relevance And History. The Book Focuses On Interrogating The Idea Of "modern" Art By Asking Such Questions As: What Makes a Work Of Art Qualify as Modern, Or Fail To? How Has This Selection Be

Artists Like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, And Michelangelo And Works Such as The Last Supper Fresco And The Monumental Marble Statue Of David, Are Familiar Symbols Of The Renaissance. But Who Were These Artists, Why Did They Produce Such Memorable Images, And How Would Their Original Beholders Have Viewed These Objects? Was The Renaissance Only About Great Masters And Masterpieces, Or Were Women Artists And Patrons Also Involved? And What About The "minor" Pieces That Renaissance Men