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Beauty and art, 1750-2000

By Elizabeth , ebrary , Inc.; Prettejohn

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
2004061707, 0192801600, 9780192801609
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
6 MB (6079086 bytes)
Series
Oxford history of art
Pages
224\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:22:06
Art;Nonfiction;History;Art History;Philosophy;Refe

Description

What do we mean when we call a work of art "beautiful"? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today.Elizabeth Prettejohn argues that we simply cannot afford to ignore these questions. Charting over two hundred years of western art, she illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rosetti, Cezanne to Pollack. Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs--60 in full color--Beauty and Artconcludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?

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