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What is Art : a Visual History about?
Your eyes will indeed be opened, and what you see in works of art will come newly alive when you have Robert Cumming, the former chairman of Christie's International Art Studies, as your guide.<br> With tremendous erudition and tart, provocative opinions, Cumming zeroes in on the essential characteristics of more than 770 painters, showing us, for example, what it was that made Rembrandt's art unique. He explains the conventions of narrative and iconography in Western art, such as the representa
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- Author
- Cumming, Robert, 1945- author
- Publisher
- Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780744023671
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Art, Criticism & Theory
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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