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A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting new voices in cultural criticism.
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A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting new voices in cultural criticism.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 277mm x 233mm x 27mm
- Gewicht: 1678g
- ISBN-13: 9780500239636
- ISBN-10: 0500239630
- Artikelnr.: 53065634
- Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 277mm x 233mm x 27mm
- Gewicht: 1678g
- ISBN-13: 9780500239636
- ISBN-10: 0500239630
- Artikelnr.: 53065634
Kelly Grovier is a feature writer for BBC Culture and the author of several acclaimed studies of art, including 100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age, Art Since 1989 and A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works , all published by Thames & Hudson. His writings have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, the Sunday Times, the Observer , the RA Magazine and Wired magazine. His history of London's Newgate Prison, The Gaol, was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'. He is co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review.
Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 bce)
Ishtar Gate (c. 575 bc)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 bc)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 bc)
Murals, Villa of the Mysteries (c60-50 bc)
Laocoön and His Sons (c.27 bc and 68 ad)
Apollodorus of Damascus (?): Trajan's Column (113 ce)
The Book of Kells (c. ad 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c1000), Fan Kuan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after), likely the work of women embroiderers
Universal Man (1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1436), Rogier Van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c.1480s), Sandro Botticelli
The Mona Lisa (c.1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Hieronymous Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-1512), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-1511), Raphael
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (c.1525), Titian
Self-portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornaro Chapel (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c 1665-9), Rembrandt Van Rijn
Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), JMW
Turner
Whistler's Mother (1871), James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at The Folies-Bergère (1882), Edouard Manet
Bathers at Asnieres (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Paul Cézanne
Primordial Chaos (1906), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
The Dance (1909), Henri Matisse
Nymphéas (1914-1926), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Humming-bird (1940), Frida Khalo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velasquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Mark Rothko
Betty (1977), Gerhard Richter
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
Ishtar Gate (c. 575 bc)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 bc)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 bc)
Murals, Villa of the Mysteries (c60-50 bc)
Laocoön and His Sons (c.27 bc and 68 ad)
Apollodorus of Damascus (?): Trajan's Column (113 ce)
The Book of Kells (c. ad 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c1000), Fan Kuan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after), likely the work of women embroiderers
Universal Man (1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1436), Rogier Van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c.1480s), Sandro Botticelli
The Mona Lisa (c.1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Hieronymous Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-1512), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-1511), Raphael
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (c.1525), Titian
Self-portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornaro Chapel (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c 1665-9), Rembrandt Van Rijn
Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), JMW
Turner
Whistler's Mother (1871), James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at The Folies-Bergère (1882), Edouard Manet
Bathers at Asnieres (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Paul Cézanne
Primordial Chaos (1906), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
The Dance (1909), Henri Matisse
Nymphéas (1914-1926), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Humming-bird (1940), Frida Khalo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velasquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Mark Rothko
Betty (1977), Gerhard Richter
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
Introduction: A Touch of Strangeness
Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 BC)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 BC)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 BC)
Villa of the Mysteries murals (c. 60-50 BC)
Laocoön and his Sons (c. 27 BC-AD 68)
Trajan's Column (AD 113), Apollodorus of Damascus
The Book of Kells (c. AD 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000), Fan K'uan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after)
The Universal Man (c. 1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1430-32), Rogier van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c. 1482-85), Sandro Botticelli
Mona Lisa (c. 1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-10), Hieronymus Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-12), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-11), Raphael
Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23), Titian
Self-Portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665-69), Rembrandt van Rijn
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), J. M. W. Turner
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), James Abbott
McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Édouard Manet
Bathers at Asnières (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
The Large Bathers (1900-6), Paul Cézanne
Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
Dance (1909-10), Henri Matisse
Water Lilies (1914-26), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
L'Égypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle (1940), Joseph Cornell
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), Frida Kahlo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Betty (1988), Gerhard Richter
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
The Artist is Present (2010), Marina Abramovic
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 BC)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 BC)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 BC)
Villa of the Mysteries murals (c. 60-50 BC)
Laocoön and his Sons (c. 27 BC-AD 68)
Trajan's Column (AD 113), Apollodorus of Damascus
The Book of Kells (c. AD 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000), Fan K'uan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after)
The Universal Man (c. 1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1430-32), Rogier van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c. 1482-85), Sandro Botticelli
Mona Lisa (c. 1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-10), Hieronymus Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-12), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-11), Raphael
Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23), Titian
Self-Portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665-69), Rembrandt van Rijn
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), J. M. W. Turner
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), James Abbott
McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Édouard Manet
Bathers at Asnières (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
The Large Bathers (1900-6), Paul Cézanne
Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
Dance (1909-10), Henri Matisse
Water Lilies (1914-26), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
L'Égypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle (1940), Joseph Cornell
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), Frida Kahlo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Betty (1988), Gerhard Richter
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
The Artist is Present (2010), Marina Abramovic
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 bce)
Ishtar Gate (c. 575 bc)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 bc)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 bc)
Murals, Villa of the Mysteries (c60-50 bc)
Laocoön and His Sons (c.27 bc and 68 ad)
Apollodorus of Damascus (?): Trajan's Column (113 ce)
The Book of Kells (c. ad 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c1000), Fan Kuan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after), likely the work of women embroiderers
Universal Man (1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1436), Rogier Van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c.1480s), Sandro Botticelli
The Mona Lisa (c.1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Hieronymous Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-1512), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-1511), Raphael
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (c.1525), Titian
Self-portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornaro Chapel (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c 1665-9), Rembrandt Van Rijn
Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), JMW
Turner
Whistler's Mother (1871), James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at The Folies-Bergère (1882), Edouard Manet
Bathers at Asnieres (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Paul Cézanne
Primordial Chaos (1906), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
The Dance (1909), Henri Matisse
Nymphéas (1914-1926), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Humming-bird (1940), Frida Khalo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velasquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Mark Rothko
Betty (1977), Gerhard Richter
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
Ishtar Gate (c. 575 bc)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 bc)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 bc)
Murals, Villa of the Mysteries (c60-50 bc)
Laocoön and His Sons (c.27 bc and 68 ad)
Apollodorus of Damascus (?): Trajan's Column (113 ce)
The Book of Kells (c. ad 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c1000), Fan Kuan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after), likely the work of women embroiderers
Universal Man (1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1436), Rogier Van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c.1480s), Sandro Botticelli
The Mona Lisa (c.1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Hieronymous Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-1512), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-1511), Raphael
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (c.1525), Titian
Self-portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornaro Chapel (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c 1665-9), Rembrandt Van Rijn
Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), JMW
Turner
Whistler's Mother (1871), James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at The Folies-Bergère (1882), Edouard Manet
Bathers at Asnieres (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Paul Cézanne
Primordial Chaos (1906), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
The Dance (1909), Henri Matisse
Nymphéas (1914-1926), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Humming-bird (1940), Frida Khalo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velasquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Mark Rothko
Betty (1977), Gerhard Richter
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
Introduction: A Touch of Strangeness
Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 BC)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 BC)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 BC)
Villa of the Mysteries murals (c. 60-50 BC)
Laocoön and his Sons (c. 27 BC-AD 68)
Trajan's Column (AD 113), Apollodorus of Damascus
The Book of Kells (c. AD 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000), Fan K'uan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after)
The Universal Man (c. 1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1430-32), Rogier van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c. 1482-85), Sandro Botticelli
Mona Lisa (c. 1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-10), Hieronymus Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-12), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-11), Raphael
Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23), Titian
Self-Portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665-69), Rembrandt van Rijn
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), J. M. W. Turner
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), James Abbott
McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Édouard Manet
Bathers at Asnières (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
The Large Bathers (1900-6), Paul Cézanne
Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
Dance (1909-10), Henri Matisse
Water Lilies (1914-26), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
L'Égypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle (1940), Joseph Cornell
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), Frida Kahlo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Betty (1988), Gerhard Richter
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
The Artist is Present (2010), Marina Abramovic
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 BC)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 BC)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 BC)
Villa of the Mysteries murals (c. 60-50 BC)
Laocoön and his Sons (c. 27 BC-AD 68)
Trajan's Column (AD 113), Apollodorus of Damascus
The Book of Kells (c. AD 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000), Fan K'uan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after)
The Universal Man (c. 1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1430-32), Rogier van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c. 1482-85), Sandro Botticelli
Mona Lisa (c. 1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-10), Hieronymus Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-12), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-11), Raphael
Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23), Titian
Self-Portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665-69), Rembrandt van Rijn
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), J. M. W. Turner
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), James Abbott
McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Édouard Manet
Bathers at Asnières (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
The Large Bathers (1900-6), Paul Cézanne
Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
Dance (1909-10), Henri Matisse
Water Lilies (1914-26), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
L'Égypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle (1940), Joseph Cornell
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), Frida Kahlo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Betty (1988), Gerhard Richter
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois
The Artist is Present (2010), Marina Abramovic
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index