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The Painted World. From Illumination to Abstraction.
Mark Evans
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Description for The Painted World. From Illumination to Abstraction.
Hardback. This title provides an alternative history of painting. Num Pages: 144 pages, 175 illustrations, (150 colour ). BIC Classification: ACB; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 944.
The Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum as the starting point for an all-inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day, encompassing painted furniture, textiles and ceramics as well as traditional oil on canvas. The history of painting is often reduced to the story of a tiny elite of easel pictures, composed exclusively of old masters and avant-garde works. Many British paintings, watercolours, miniatures, icons and non-European works relate uneasily to this twin canon of old and modern masters. This richly illustrated account seeks to redress the balance by exploring ... Read more
The Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum as the starting point for an all-inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day, encompassing painted furniture, textiles and ceramics as well as traditional oil on canvas. The history of painting is often reduced to the story of a tiny elite of easel pictures, composed exclusively of old masters and avant-garde works. Many British paintings, watercolours, miniatures, icons and non-European works relate uneasily to this twin canon of old and modern masters. This richly illustrated account seeks to redress the balance by exploring ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
V & A Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851774678
SKU
V9781851774678
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Mark Evans
Mark Evans is Senior Curator of Paintings in the Word & Image department at the V&A . He was written extensively on painting from the late Middle Ages to the early twentieth century.
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