L'arte nella storia

I thoroughly enjoyed this work...except for the poor reproductions of the paintings under discussion. It's not for me to comment on Professor Kemp's critiques of art works beyond saying that I learned a lot and thought a lot, which was why I read the book. Job done. What I really admired was Kemp's w Leggi tutto

Interesante, sencillo y bastante corto, es el libro ideal para comenzar a estudiar el arte, ya que expone de manera fluida las características del arte en distintos períodos, con ejemplos de artistas y obras representstivas, sin dejar de observar la sociedad en la que tuvieron lugar.

In each of the chapters (different periods in art history), the author brings up certain artworks and talks about them. E.g. The curtains drawn in the painting suggest that blah blah. I found it all to be eye-rolling, pretentious poppycock, as with other similar art books where the authors think the Leggi tutto

Uma visão abrangente do percurso da cultura artística, focada no desenvolvimento de ideias em determinadas épocas. Vamos da pré-história ao momento contemporâneo, passando pelos grandes marcos da continuidade artística. Kemp, profundo conhecedor da história da arte, mostra-nos como os conceitos artí Leggi tutto

This is a very brief book to cover 2600 years of art. It gives a simple and fast glimpse of the most relevant works of art through history and the evolution of both the art and the artists in their interaction with society. A weakness of this book is that the author analyses certain works of art dep Leggi tutto

This is a pretty disappointing attempt at placing art in history (only in the western world until the modern era). I was hoping to get a bit of a refresher on AP art history and learn some fun facts. This has fun facts for people with no background in art history. I found the quotes beginning each c Leggi tutto