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How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters

How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters
Library Shelf Location QUAY
Publication Date 2007
Description In this accessible, practical guide, Jon Thompson explores more than 200 works, helping readers to unlock each painting’s meaning. Beginning with the Barbizon school and the Realist movement of the mid-19th century and continuing right up to the 1980s avant-garde, he analyses works by some of the greatest and most popular artists of the modern era, including Bonnard, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol and Basquiat, describing each artist’s use of media and symbolism, and providing useful biographical information. The perfect museum companion for art lovers everywhere, this book is a vibrant, informative trip through one of art history’s most compelling periods.
ISBN 9780500286432
Quantity 1
Pages 400
Author Jon Thompson
Format Softcover
Publisher Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Category Surveys of Modern & Contemporary Art
Language English

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