Look at This If You Love Great Art: A Critical Curation of 100 Essential Artworks - Packed with Links to Further Reading, Listening and Viewing to Tak

Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must-read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, inside is a collection of insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so vital.

 

Art writer Chlo Ashby talks you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind them and offering her considered take on why each work should be regarded as a pinnacle of artistic endeavor. With entries curated to offer a unique juxtaposition of styles, mediums, and schools of art, expect a contemporary take on classic artworks, where titans of art history cross paths with under-appreciated examples from outside the traditional canon, and where rebellious visionaries blaze trails that still influence today's cutting-edge artists.

 

Covering all the most important genres of art -Abstraction, Pop Art, Surrealism, Renaissance art, Impressionism, and more - this engaging summary only deals with artworks that really matter and the reasons why you have to see them.


Author: Chloë Ashby
Publisher: Ivy Press
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780711256064

About the Author

Chloë Ashby is a writer and editor. Since graduating from the Courtauld Institute of Art, she has written about art and culture for the TLS, Guardian, FT Life & Arts, Spectator, Apollo, frieze, and others. She is the author of The Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Colour Palettes, which will be published by Frances Lincoln in spring 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in The London Magazine and The Fairlight Book of Short Stories. Her first novel, Wet Paint, will be published by Trapeze, also in spring 2022.