In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned, weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes it art.
Language
English
Pages
620
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1998
The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst
In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned, weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes it art.