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BL
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979415
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b733785
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| Main Entry
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Strickland, Carol.
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| Title & Author
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The annotated Mona Lisa : : a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern /\ Carol Strickland and John Boswell.
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| Publication Statement
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Kansas City :: Andrews and McMeel,, [1992]
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, ©1992
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198 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 28 cm
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| ISBN
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0836280059
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: 0836280091
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: 1449482139
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: 9780836280050
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: 9780836280098
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: 9781449482138
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| Notes
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"A John Boswell Associates book."
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Art nouveau -- Birth of photography -- Impressionism : let there be color and light -- Rodin : first modern sculptor -- Post-impressionism -- Early expressionism -- Symbolism -- The birth of modern architecture -- The twentieth century : modern art. Fauvism : exploding color -- Twentieth-century sculpture : a new look -- Twin titans of the twentieth century : Matisse and Picasso -- Cubism -- Modernism outside of France -- Futurism -- Constructivism -- Precisionism -- Expressionism -- Mondrian : harmony of opposites -- Modernist architecture : geometry to live in -- Dada and surrealism : art between the wars.
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Photography comes of age -- American art : 1908-40 -- Abstract expressionism -- Figural expressionism : not just a pretty face -- Post-war sculpture -- Color field -- The twentieth century and beyond : contemporary art. Hard edge -- Pre-pop art -- Pop art -- Minimalism : the cool school -- Conceptual art : invisible visual art -- Contemporary architecture -- Photography : what's new -- Photo-realism -- Neo-expressionism -- The new breed : post-modern art.
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The birth of art : prehistoric through medieval. Prehistoric art : the beginning -- Mesopotamia : the architects -- Egypt : the art of imortality -- Greece : they invented a lot more than the Olympics -- Rome : the organizers -- Pre-Columbian art of the Americas : new world art when it was still an old world -- African art : the first cubists -- The middle ages : the reign of religion -- Golden age of byzantine art -- Romanesque art : stories in stone -- Gothic art : height and light -- The rebirth of art : renaissance and baroque -- The renaissance : the beginning of modern painting -- The Italian renaissance -- The northern renaissance.
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The renaissance in the low countries -- The German renaissance -- Mannerism and the late renaissance -- The Spanish renaissance -- Baroque : the ornate age. -- Italian baroque -- Flemish baroque -- Dutch baroque -- English baroque -- Spanish baroque -- French baroque -- Rococo -- The nineteenth century : birth of the "isms." Neoclassicism : roman fever -- French neoclassicism -- American neoclassicism -- Goya : man with an "ism" -- Romanticism : the power of passion -- French romanticism -- English romanticism -- American romanticism and genre painting -- Realism. French realism -- American realism -- Architecture for the industrial age.
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| Abstract
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The Annotated Mona Lisa takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks to a world of dynamic design, succinct page-length essays, and instructive sidebars. These graphic device heighten the reader's ability to retain an impressive amount of information, even through a cursory reading. A brief run-through of the book's captions and sidebars provides a mini crash course in art history. Incorportating more than 300 illustrations drawing on the very elements of art-composition, movment, balance, color, and design-to achieve a visual and textual approach to the subject that no ordinary book could aproximate.
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| Subject
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Art-- History, Outlines, syllabi, etc.
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Art-- History, Outlines, syllabi, etc.
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Art.
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Art.
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| Dewey Classification
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709
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| LC Classification
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N5302.S76 1992
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| Added Entry
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Boswell, John,1945-
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