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  • Published: 21 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241695609
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Artists Who Changed History




MEET THE WORLD’S GREATEST ARTISTS – FACE TO FACE

This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated artists tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works.

Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each artist, alongside photographs of their homes and studios, and personal artefacts, Artists Who Changed History offers a unique window into the personalities of each individual, and their key artistic ideas, themes, and techniques.

Introduced with a stunning portrait of each artist, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired and influenced them, reveal the key social and artistic factors that shaped their work, and explore their influence on the artists who followed them. Entries explore the vision and approach of each artist, and the creative development of their work during their lifetime, setting it in context and conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived.

Covering a broad range of artists from the Middle Ages to the present day, Artists Who Changed History provides a compelling, entertaining, and accessible glimpse of the lives and loves of each one.

  • Published: 21 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241695609
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Andrew Graham Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television programmes in the English-speaking world. He has presented six landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed A History of British Art, Renaissance, and Art of Eternity, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. For more than 20 years, he has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and, more recently, in the Sunday Telegraph. He has written a number of books on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture, to contemporary art.

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