Art: The Critics Choice : 150 Masterpieces of Western Art Selected and Defined by the Experts

By John Russell

Most general surveys of the history of Western art suffer from one main problem: their author invariably encounters some (or usually many) areas of art history of which he knows relatively little.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823002608
• ISBN13: 9780823002603
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

An informative, superbly presented body of essays.

Marina Vaizey's Art: The Critics' Choice provides a chronological arrangement as it tells the story of art through works selected and explained by world-renowned experts. Established images and works representative of different periods are analyzed in general overviews followed by essays on 15 selected works.