The Annotated Mona Lisa (gnv64)

The Annotated Mona Lisa - A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
By Carol Strickland
Andrews McMeel Publishing | June 1992 | ISBN-10: 0836280059 | scanned PDF | 208 pages | 20.9 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Mona-Lisa-Prehistoric-Post-Modern/dp/0836280059

Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.
This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art education out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes the history of art movements accessible to beginning art museum-goers - even at a cursory reading. From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from African art to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections (prehistoric and medieval, renaissance and baroque, the nineteenth century, modern art, and contemporary art) covering a little more than 200 pages.

About the author

She has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and contributes feature stories on visual art to Art in America magazine. Her stories on culture have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Art and Antiques, and Private Journey magazine. She is the author of the best-selling "The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern," "The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture," "The Illustrated Timeline of Art History," "The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature," and monographs on the artists Paul Waldman and Aris Kalaizis. Her screenplays for feature films have won prizes in prestigious script competitions.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: HOW TO LOOK AT A PAINTING x
THE BIRTH OF ART: PREHISTORIC THROUGH MEDIEVAL 1
THE REBIRTH OF ART: RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE 30
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: BIRTH OF THE "ISMS" 66
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: MODERN ART 128
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND: CONTEMPORARY ART 168
INDEX 195