Download Books The Story of Art Online

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

Hardcover | Pages: 688 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 290483 Users | 815 Reviews

Describe Books Concering The Story of Art

Original Title:	The Story of Art
ISBN:	071483355X (ISBN13: 9780714833552)
Edition Language:	English

Chronicle Supposing Books The Story of Art

This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence of new endings have been added, and the captions are now fuller, including the medium and dimension of the works illustrated. Six fold-outs present selected large-scale works. They are: Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, Leonardo's Last Supper, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Jackson Pollock's One (Number 31, 1950), Van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Declare Epithetical Books The Story of Art

Title	:	The Story of Art
Author	:	E.H. Gombrich
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 688 pages
Published	:	April 9th 1995 by Phaidon Press (first published 1950)
Categories	:	Art. Nonfiction. History. Art History. Reference. Design. Classics

Rating Epithetical Books The Story of Art

Ratings: 3.92 From 290483 Users | 815 Reviews

Rate Epithetical Books The Story of Art

before the reveiw, a little pretext, i love art history, NPR and David Sedaris, so the fact the i read this book basically cover to cover isn't too surprising. it was clear and consise and had so many pictures (faomous and obsecure) i must have read the chapter on impressionism and post impressionism 40 times and the section and mannerism at least half that. but if your not interested, this won't read like fiction, or any kind of even remotely intersting text. to some its like reading the

Reflecting on my reading year 2016, I came to think of books that have meant a lot to me over the past decades, and the first one that came to my mind was Gombrichs excellent introduction to art history. I will have to go back twenty years, half my life, to the year 1996. I am twenty years old, and just about to discover the pleasurable adventure called university. For Christmas, I receive a much longed-for gift card to buy books that will help me in my studies, and I stand in a bookstore, one

An excellent introduction to the history of European art. Accessible and great for building a narrative timeline.

This book is the best story of art ever told.I devoured the book years ago, when studying at the Art Academy.for those who are not into art, or think they are not interested in art..it will make you love it!and it will teach you from the very beginning how to see "the mind" of the artist in the creation..highly recommended

What a monument! I'm not a regular in the history of art, but I wanted to throw myself still in this reading. Much good has taken me, it took me a few weeks to deal with them, but I do not regret it! Are discussed painting, drawing, sculpture and even architecture, since the earliest human societies until the 50s the whole is decorated with beautiful illustrations. Unless you have a real need for the pocket edition (small footprint), I advise rather publishing "beautiful book". Indeed, the

I should preface everything I say with a general caveat: I am a novice in the world of art, which is the reason I picked up this book in the first place. Although I often drew as a child, I was more interested in schematic, technical drawings than anything you could call art. And, despite my keen appreciation of music and fiction, Ive always had the visual equivalent of a tin ear. I could stand in front of a masterpiece and be more interested in what I just ate for lunch. So with that shameful

The Story of Art is a handy little survey of art history, primarily but not exclusively western art, from cave paintings and primitive sculptures to modern architecture and pop art. It is 500 pages of text and that many pages of well synchronized color plates in a smart pocket edition by Phaidon. Twenty-eight chapters, mostly quite brief, but each a skillful, thoughtful rippling of the surface, with hints of depth and well-defined currents moving quickly and sure footedly through the eras and