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Power of Art - Simon Schama
Power of Art
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All art is subversive, Pablo Picasso once declared. In The Power of Art, cultural historian Simon Schama emphatically agrees. "Great art," he notes, "has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm... show more
All art is subversive, Pablo Picasso once declared. In The Power of Art, cultural historian Simon Schama emphatically agrees. "Great art," he notes, "has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality." This powerful, full-bodied book zeroes in on eight gifted artistic thugs (Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko) and their convention-breaking creations.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780670066674 (0670066672)
Publisher: Viking Canada
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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