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A New Way of Seeing - The History of Art in 57 Works (Paperback)
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A New Way of Seeing - The History of Art in 57 Works (Paperback)
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List price R660
Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
You Save R132 (20%)
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A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and
centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting
voices in cultural criticism. What makes great art great? Why do
some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation,
century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to
Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so
famous, so much a part of who we are, that we no longer really look
at them. We take their greatness for granted; our eyes have become
near-obsolete. We need a new way of seeing. Unsatisfied with
traditional interpretations of masterpieces, which are so often
interested only in learning about art, and not from it, Kelly
Grovier combed the surface of revered works from the Terracotta
Army to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits, in a quest to find the key to
their lasting power to move and delight us. He discovered that
every truly great work is hardwired with an underappreciated detail
that ignites it from deep within. Stepping away from biography,
style and the chronology of 'isms' that preoccupies most art
history, Grovier tells a new story in which we learn from the
artworks, not just about them.
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