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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, this 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.
Introduction
1 Apelles: The G.O.A.T.
2 Giotto: Painting the Human Experience
3 Hieronymus Bosch: (Poor) People are Terrible
4 Leonardo da Vinci: Re-presenting the World5 Artemisia Gentileschi: Until her Work is Seen6 Rembrandt van Rijn: Things for Which There Are No Words7 William Hogarth: The First YBA8 Francisco de Goya: Producing Monsters9 Katsushika Hokusai: Old Man Mad About Art10 J.M.W. Turner: Painting as Poetry11 Rosa Bonheur: Art and Animals12 Claude Monet: Making an Impression13 Vincent van Gogh: Feeling Deeply14 Käthe Kollwitz: Artist as Advocate15 Henri Matisse: Seeking Colour and Light16 Pablo Picasso: That Guy Missed Nothing!17 Kazimir Malevich: Nothing in Common with Nature18 Mark Rothko: Basic Human Emotions19 Barbara Hepworth: Every Hill and Valley Becomes a Sculpture2o Frida Kahlo: Identity and Self21 Emily Kam Kngwarray: Life and Landscape22 Jacob Lawrence: History Painting23 Andy Warhol: The Same Thing, Over and Over24 Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration25 Marina Abramovic: The Audience and I Become One26 Ai Weiwei: An Artist Must Be an Activist27 Keith Haring: Art in the City28 The Guerrilla Girls: Collective and Covert29 Rachel Whiteread: The Spaces In-Between30 Wangechi Mutu: Beauty, Bodies and Optimistic FuturesConclusionsAcknowledgementsEndnotesIndex
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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, this 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.
