Key Moments in art

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Call Number: 709 Ch, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Art / History / Cheshire, Lee
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Includes index.
Renaissance -- Cimabue finds the young Giotto drawing on a rock -- Ghiberti wins the competition to make doors for Florence Baptistery -- Brunelleschi demonstrates linear perspective -- Jan van Eyck completes the Ghent Altarpiece -- Michelangelo unveils his monumental sculpture of David -- Raphael applies to paint the pope's private quarters -- Durer publishes his print of the rhinoceros -- Emperor Charles V picks up Titian's brush -- Early Modern -- Iconoclasts attack Antwerp Cathedral -- Veronese is interrogated by the Inquisition -- Caravaggio murders a young man -- French Academy is founded -- Rembrandt declares bankruptcy -- Velazquez is granted a knighthood -- `Hogarth's Act' grants engravers copyright in their work -- David is commissioned to make a portrait of the assassinated revolutionary Marat -- Louvre opens as a museum -- Nineteenth Century -- Parthenon Marbles go on show at the British Museum -- William Blake sees the ghost of a flea -- Constable wins a Gold Medal -- invention of the Daguerreotype is made public -- patent is issued for the collapsible paint tube -- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is formed -- Opening of the Salon des Refuses -- Japan shows at the Exposition Universalle in Paris -- Rodin defends himself -- Cezanne's father dies -- Monet buys his house in Giverny -- Gauguin leaves for Tahiti -- Vienna Secession is founded -- Early Twentieth Century -- term `Cubism' is coined -- Futurist manifesto is published on the front page of Le Figaro -- Mono Lisa is stolen from the Louvre -- `Der Blaue Reiter' exhibition opens -- `0,10' exhibition introduces Suprematism -- Duchamp's Fountain is rejected -- Brincusi's sculpture Bird in Space is seized by US customs -- Premiere of Un Chien Andalou -- Nazis open the `Degenerate Art Exhibition' -- Frida Kahlo meets Andre Breton -- Post-War -- Pollock appears in Life magazine -- Rauschenberg asks de Kooning for a drawing to erase -- Warhol pays $50 for an idea -- Kusama organizes a naked Happening on Wall Street -- Beuys is shut in a gallery with a coyote -- protest outside MoMA leads to the formation of the Guerrilla Girls -- exhibition `Freeze' opens -- Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet sells for a record price -- Whiteread's House is demolished -- Eliasson brings the weather inside Tate Modern.
"Key Moments in Art' describes fifty pivotal moments - some famous, others unfamiliar - from the Renaissance to the present day. Vivid, colourful vignettes capture the excitement of their times: when Michelangelo's David or Marcel Duchamp's Fountain were unveiled for the first time; when chance meetings have spurred artists to create compelling new styles, such as Impressionism or Pop Art; or when exhibitions have caused a public sensation. Lee Cheshire's storytelling approach is both entertaining and easy to remember. He celebrates artistic ingenuity and collaboration, but does not shy away from the arguments, fights and lawsuits that have dogged art's often-turbulent course. A reference section includes an invaluable glossary of art terms."--Page 4 of cover.

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