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The Short Story of Modern Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works - from the realist painting of Courbet to a contemporary installation by Yayoi Kus ...Show more
The Short Story of Women Artists - A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise male-dominated artistic movements, and the forgotten and obscured artists who are now being rediscovered and rea ...Show more
Velazquez: Life & Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design
This is a comprehensive reference book on the life and works of Diego Velazquez, the most important painter in the Spanish Habsburg court of King Philip IV. It offers a fascinating study of this individualistic artist's education, family life and influences, and all his outstanding works. It explores Ve ...Show more
When Design Really Works by Susie Hodge
Category: Design
Design is something that many of us rarely think about, yet it pervades every aspect of our lives from the clothes we wear to the simple items we use every day, like the spoon and toothbrush. When Design Really Works takes a deeper look at the objects that enrich our lives through the examination of 80 ...Show more
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design
"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from C ...Show more
Why is Art Full of Naked People? And Other Vital Questions About Art by Susie Hodge; Henry Plummer; Claire Goble
Category: Children's Educational
Why is Art Full of Naked People? is an irreverent and informative primer that asks tricky questions about what makes art art. What is with all the fruit? Why is art so weird nowadays? There are questions about how art views the world, from cave paintings through to Cubism, from the Renaissance to contem ...Show more