Key Moments in Art (Art Essentials)

by Lee Cheshire

Book Overview

Art lovers can list history's most important art objects, but what many don't know are the dramatic, funny, and sometimes bizarre stories behind these most famous works. Spanning the last 500 years of art history, this book revisits fifty momentous events that changed the course of art--days when now world-famous works like Michelangelo's David or Marcel Duchamp's urinal were unveiled for the first time. In Key Moments in Art, chance meetings spur...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500293627
• ISBN13: 9780500293621
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"