Art: A Visual History

What makes great art? From cave paintings through the graffiti-inspired paintings of Basquiat, this sumptuous encyclopedia will give you much to consider as it surveys the styles, movements, and ideas that have shaped the visual arts, as well as its most important practitioners. More than 600 artists are profiled, including Fra Angelico, Donatello, Bosch, El Greco, Watteau, Turner, Rodin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Modigliani, Warhol, and Hirst. In a clever cutaway slipcase shaped like an Impressionist's palette, this book contains hundreds of color illustrations, and inside the back cover are 8 x10-inch prints of Monet's Bathers at La Grenouillère and Cézanne's Gardanne.