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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.
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Art appreciation.
Painting -- Appreciation.
Masterpiece, Artistic.
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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.
Art appreciation.
Painting -- Appreciation.
Masterpiece, Artistic.
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Meiga towa nanika [Japanese] /
Clark
Kenneth
cho; Fujikawa Yoshiyuki yaku.
by
Clark
,
Kenneth
,
1903-1983
.
Chikumashobō, 2015.
Call #:
759 C593m
Subjects
Art appreciation.
Painting -- Appreciation.
Masterpiece, Artistic.
ISBN:
9784480096845
4480096841
Uniform title:
What is a masterpiece? Japanese
Alternate title:
What is a masterpiece? [Japanese]
名画とは何か [Japanese]
Description:
172 p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Notes:
Translation of a work first published in English in 1979.
In Japanese, translated from the original English.
Summary:
Boticelli's "The Birth of Venus", Velazquez's "Las Meninas", Rembrandt's "The Night Watch", Picasso's "Guernica" -- these are masterpieces familiar to anyone. Why have these mages surived the ages to pose riddles and move our hearts even now? What is that certain something that makes a masterpiece a masterpiece? Here
Kenneth
Clark
, great scholar of the art world, takes on that question by examining forty-some works not only as expressions of an artist's genius, but as embodyments of the spirit of their age. One by one, he carefully interprets each picture and its relationship to culture in this priceless introduction to art.
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Japanese language materials
Other authors:
Fujikawa, Yoshiyuki, 1938-
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759 C593m
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