The Art Book: Mini Edition - Phaidon Press

...kind of first reference to the most well-known works of some certain artists. Anyway, in several cases the works of the artists which were selected in this book was not the artists' best ones. For instance, we can't find "the thinker" by Rodin. And in my opinion, the selected work of Rodin in this book is not his best work. Some similar cases, for further example, we will be found on the selected works of Goya, Salvador Dali, Chagall, Picasso, Fernando ...
...to be considered that THE ART BOOK is not the collection of the most well-known works of the artists, but the collection of the best works of them based on the certain criteria or aesthetic standards of the editor of the book. ********* WHAT ********* THE ART BOOK Phaidon Press Limited, Regent's Wharf, All Saints Street, London NI 9PA First published, 1994. Reprinted, 1995, 1996. This edition 1996. © 1994 Phaidon Press Limited. Pages: 516 ...

cs.hari 18.11.2007 (22.11.2007) · Read full review
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...and often gets taken off the book shelf several years after studying. I like the fact it is neat, compact and fits easily into a pocket or bag meaning that you can take it with you to school, library or just out and about. A great little starter book for any budding art student. ...

zebedee2006 18.09.2006 · Read full review
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...great to take to galleries. The pictures are only about 15cm tall, but they're sharp, all colour and printed on quite good paper. The comments are concise combinations of history and criticism (be warned if you need reading glasses, the print is very small). Another useful feature is that each artist's page has a footnote recommended similar artists, eg. BACON: see Bosch, Manzu, Soutine, Sutherland, Velazquez. 'The Art Book' manages to skim through ...

eraserhead 23.12.2000 · Read full review
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The first time i returned home after visiting the tate modern on london's south bank, i could remember very little of what i had seen, where i had been and why i had been there. The reason was something to do with temperature. You see, the problem with an art gallery that begins its life as a tourist attraction is that it attracts tourists - many of them, all with large coats and warm breath. And as i strolled among the giacomettis, i remember feeling ...
...mints and then there were the hundreds of people that surrounded me, breathing. and so, upon my second visit, i made a point of making use of the gallery's helpful cloakroom system. It makes a lot of difference when you walk around a gallery in just a t-shirt, jeans and your 'city boots'. The one other thing i decided not to allow the cloakroom attendents to steal from me was my copy of phaidon's the art book. Small, glossy and almost a friend and ...

djg03 04.06.2003 · Read full review
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...Artist, this is one of the many art books I have in my collection. Half of these books are the kind of book you skim through looking for a well known picture or an extract of information which is a sentence and this book is one of those. It is a collection of artists from every art background - from modernism to renaissance to aboriginal art. They are of course sorted by surname and consist of only one page per artist so you can imagine how much ...
...picture. If you ignore the simple nature of the book, it is in itself a very handy little companion which sits in your collection. When looking up a certain artist, you can therefore then have that little amount of information, the one main picture of that artist to your knowledge so that when you look further into you artist on the internet you are not going to be looking at another artist with the same name, which happens more than you think. ...

ceda13 15.01.2008 · Read full review
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A greta mixture of old and new, appears at someplace to miss some contemporary artists who are unmissable, however when it explains a work you get a list of other artists, old and new that the artist in question is similar to. Explaining parts of old masters that could easily go un-known, it ,makes a gentle and interesting read. ...

grace00_uk 12.07.2008
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...for getting an idea of the work of an artist someone mentions to you, presented in this highly portable but not pocketable format. It's arranged alphabetically giving each of 500 artists a page featuring an image of one work and a paragraph introduction to the featured work and the artist's life. A great book to flick through, and you're bound to find something different to research further elsewhere. Personally I prefer The 20th Century Art Book ...

bradpitt1 20.03.2006 · Read full review
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