These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their
parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors,
People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great
masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the
longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is
currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a
developmentally based education research organization. He has also
been affiliated with education programs at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In Shapes
Yenawine asks questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?"
while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists include
Seurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali.
Colors looks at Monet, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella and
Johns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such as
Hopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works by
Balthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera. Lines features 16
works by van Gogh, Matisse, Pollock, Morandi, O'Keeffe and others.
And Stories includes Chagall, Wyeth, Lichtenstein, Dubuffet, Shahn,
Moore and Magritte. Each volume comes with an illustrated summary
of artworks.
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