Comedian and art historian Verity Babbs journeys through 50 of the most important art movements throughout history, answering ten key questions for each movement in just one sentence at a time.

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country’s...

Is it best to screen the error for the sake of preserving the art? Or should the art be sacrificed for the sake of truthfulness? Again and again in history a dominant church has utilised art to maintain its sway over men. Reformers (early Christians, Mohammedans, Puritans, and others) have perceived that art bound people to the old faith, and they were angry with art.

These works, in chronological order,are " My Confession ". A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, which has never been translated....

The official book accompanying the unique exhibition of the ‘Mona Lisa’ among manuscripts

The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry is the best-preserved and one of the most magnificently exquisitely detailed manuscripts of the fifteenth century. Handmade around 1410 for the Duke of Berry, a prominent figure in France, this Book of Hours is known as a masterpiece of international Gothic art. It combines intriguing naturalism with imaginative, lively compositions on 206 parchment page...

Prachtige publicatie over de weergave van Parijs door Franse impressionisten zoals Monet, Cassatt, Renoir en Degas

In 1867 schildert Claude Monet vanaf het balkon van het Louvre drie iconische stadsgezichten van Parijs en geeft zo het startschot voor het impressionisme. Naast een gedetailleerde bespreking van deze drie bijzondere werken komen in dit boek ook talrijke andere impressionistische schilderijen en tekeningen aan bod.

Experts van toonaangevende musea uit de hele wereld laten zien ho...

'Het hogere in het dagelijkse betrekken, dát is wat kunst kan doen. En dat is ook wat mij dreef in de meer dan vijftig jaren waarin ik lesgaf in kunstgeschiedenis en bouwkunst aan het Geert Groote College Amsterdam. Kunstbeschouwing nam in het lesaanbod van die school een ruime plaats in. Veel leerlingen deden het eindexamen kunstgeschiedenis havo of vwo. Als afsluiting van al deze lessen volgde dan de reis naar Rome, Florence, Parijs of Barcelona.' - Mark Mastenbroek

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Art, with its finite means, cannot hope to record the infinite variety and complexity of Nature, and so contents itself with a partial statement, addressing this to the imagination for the full and perfect meaning. This inadequation, and the artificial adjustments which it involves, are tolerated by right of what is known as artistic convention; and as each art has its own particular limitations, so each has its own particular conventions. Sculpture reproduces the forms of Nature, but discard...