The Annotated Mona Lisa A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
, by Strickland, CarolNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780740768729 | 0740768727
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/2/2007
This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessibleeven at a cursory reading.From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.