The History of Art-Fast Shipping

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An artist’s fascinating history of art, beautifullyillustrated and handwritten, in which his own eclectic personalexperience is combined into a narrative that is both artistic andeducational.
A work of art in itself, thisextraordinary book is the first account of the history of art that hasbeen both written and illustrated from an artist’s point of published as a series in Flash Art magazine,Jori presents art in a way that is both personal and with the birth of art itself, the reader experiences artthrough the early Egyptians and great civilizations of the past to the“high” art of ancient Greece, the trio of Renaissance masters (Leonardo,Raphael, Michelangelo), and then to Caravaggio, up to the grand era ofnineteenth-century French painting, the groundbreaking works of vanGogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne, and the abstract and deconstructed imageryof Pablo Picasso, which has remained a leitmotif in art. The narrativereaches up to the present day and age, closing with Christo’s recentplatform stretched over the waters of Lake Iseo in Italy.