The Grove Book of Art Writing : Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst - Martin Gayford

The Grove Book of Art Writing

Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst

By: Martin Gayford (Editor), Karen Wright (Editor)

Paperback | 31 August 2000

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks, many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but novelists, poets, gossips, artists, and essayists.

In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hider on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes it art. From the deadly serious to the deeply witty, from the sublime to the ridiculous, The Grove Book of Art Writing is an eloquent compendium of insight into the diverse ways the visual arts can be seen and thought about.

More in History of Art & Design Styles

Wicked : The Story of Oz & the Wonderful Wizard: Replica Pop-Up - Insight Editions
65,000 Years : A Short History of Australian Art - Marcia Langton

RRP $79.99

$53.35

33%
OFF
1000 Record Covers : Bibliotheca Universalis - Michael Ochs

RRP $44.99

$37.25

17%
OFF
The Story of Art without Men : The instant Sunday Times bestseller - Katy Hessel
HR Giger. 40th Ed. : 40th Anniversary Edition - Andreas J. Hirsch

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Emily Kam Kngwarray - Kelli Cole

RRP $89.95

$61.90

31%
OFF
From Under The Truck : A Memoir - Josh Brolin

RRP $34.99

$31.75

Clay : Contemporary Ceramic Artisans - Amber Creswell Bell

RRP $69.99

$47.25

32%
OFF
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica : Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley
Dreaming the Land : Aboriginal Art from Remote Australia - Marie Geissler
Plant Magick : The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley

RRP $74.99

$50.40

33%
OFF
Art : The Definitive Visual Guide - DK

RRP $85.00

$56.25

34%
OFF
Spider-Man : Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie - Ramin Zahed
Untamed Thread : Slow stich to soothe the soul & ignite creativity - Fleur Woods
Gray Malin: Dogs: Photographs - Gray Malin

RRP $69.99

$47.35

32%
OFF
Australian Abstract : Contemporary abstract painting - Amber Creswell Bell
Hypersonic Realism : The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa - Reg Mombassa
Frank Lloyd Wright - Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

RRP $155.00

$115.95

25%
OFF
The Art of Haikyu!! : Endings and Beginnings - Haruichi Furudate

RRP $70.00

$44.80

36%
OFF
Make Ink - Jason Logan

Hardcover

RRP $45.00

$37.25

17%
OFF