Michael Kerrigan (4)
Autor de Asian Art
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Obras de Michael Kerrigan
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- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 356
- Popularidad
- #67,310
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 234
- Idiomas
- 14
Kerrigan's overview is useful if not particularly discriminating. I thought it would be better not to mention Chinese or Japanese art at all, if the only discussion of them was going to be a brief paragraph on page 16 and the sole inclusion of Hokusai's famous wave among the hundred masterpieces of the title. There's rather too much attention paid to the various superficial schools of modern art, relative to the proper art (though I did like Duchamp's clever Nude Descending a Staircase), and it is galling to see the likes of Vlaminck's juvenile At the Bar or Klee's The Goldfish in the same company as Turner, Rubens, Rembrandt and Caravaggio. The early wealth of this chronological book turns to despair as you realise Michelangelo put more intricacy and depth of thought into one of Adam's fingernails than entire schools of modern art do into their whole philosophy.… (más)