All About Art: Books for Color Our World

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Updated May 28, 2025
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Art : a visual history
Cumming, Robert
Paper Book
Discover the secrets behind Botticelli's dream-like designs, admire Klimt's gold-laced erotic surrealism, and explore the emotion of Van Gogh's swirling brushwork as you journey through the ages of Western art. Art: A Visual History offers a clear insight into...
Art : the definitive visual guide
Paper Book
Discover more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures in this beautifully- illustrated guide to the history of art.  Introducing Art: The Definitive Visual Guide - an invaluable reference book that spans 30,000 years of global art history,...
How Banksy saved art history
Grovier, Kelly
Paper Book
A new take on the history ofart through the eyes of theinternational phenomenonthat is Banksy. Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad...
The island of extraordinary captives : a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp
Parkin, Simon
Paper Book
The "riveting...truly shocking" (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians,...
The museum
Verde, Susan.
Ebook
  When I see a work of art, something happens in my heart! As a little girl tours and twirls through the halls of the art museum, she finds herself on an exciting adventure. Each piece of art evokes something new inside of her: silliness, curiosity, joy, and ultimately...

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