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Everything You Know about Art Is Wrong

Autor Matt Brown
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2018
Art is just a load of fancy paintings hung in a gallery. Or is it? Find out the truth, in the myth-busting book Why is the Mona Lisa really smiling? Who really invented photography? Which painting was hung upside-down for over a month before anyone noticed? In the intriguing, outrageous, and often provoking world of the visual arts, nothing is quite as it seems--or as many people believe. Whether it's the notion that all artists are starving young men or that Walt Disney actually designed Mickey Mouse, false ideas persist. Everything You Know About Art Is Wrong sets us straight, revealing the truth about such things as the world's first instance of photobombing in 1843, the destruction of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers during World War II, the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Mars, and so much more.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849944298
ISBN-10: 1849944296
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 50
Dimensiuni: 144 x 424 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: BATSFORD

Descriere

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the intriguing, outrageous and often provoking world of the visual arts, nothing is quite as it seems.

From the world's first intance of photobombing in 1843 to the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Mars, the destruction of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers during World War II and the GBP3,500 sheet of paper crumpled into a ball, Everything You Know About Art is Wrong will confound your assumptions about the world of art - and perhaps even the place of art in the world.


Notă biografică

Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, including eight titles in the popular Everything You Know... series of mythbusting books. He has served as editor and editor-at-large of Londonist.com for many years, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London, London Eye, Royal Institution, Royal Society and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. All of his books use humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He is tweeting at @mattfromlondon.