Phaidon Editors - Artifacts Fascinating Facts About Art Artists And The Art World - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Even a seasoned art history buff will find new things to discover in this book. - Hyperallergic Fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes. - The Art Newspaper The perfect miscellany for every art lover - an essential and engaging collection of facts figures and findings about art artists and the art world past and present This extraordinary compendium of compelling facts figures and findings gathers and distils obscure and fascinating information about art artists and the art world. Fun surprising and compelling in this covetable book you will learn: - which artist's work is stolen most often (Picasso) - names of artists pets: Fat Fat & Cous - Cous (Louise Nevelson's cats) Giotto and Goya (John Baldessari's dogs) - artist couples (Nancy Rubins and Chris Burden; Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely; Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst) - things artists collect: prosthetic arms and legs (Sophie Calle) glass eyes (Hiroshi Sugimoto) - odd jobs and side hustles: telephone marketer (Tomma Abts) crop duster (James Turrell) - artists who were rejected from art school (Francisco Goya Auguste Rodin) and hundreds of other miscellaneous details. Thoughtfully and thoroughly researched this intriguing book offers refreshing and surprising perspectives on the world of art. The five page - turning chapters cover: - Artists - Art School - Art Studio - Art Museum - Art World
Title: Artifacts Fascinating Facts About Art Artists And The Art World
Author(s): Phaidon Editors
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781838663155
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 2/16/2022
Category: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles