The Annotated Mona Lisa
Book (italiano):
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to <I>The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern</i><P>* This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated.<P>This second edition of Carol Strickland's <I>The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern</i> offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.<P>* Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, <I>The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern</i> takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading.<P>* From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
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