01935cam a2200349 i 4500 412656953 TxAuBib 20200211120000.0 181112s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019023681 9781465481788 HRD 35.00 1465481788 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib rda The Story of painting [BOOK] : how art was made / senior editor, Angela Wilkes; foreword by Ross King. First American edition. New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2019. 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Beginnings -- Return to realism -- Drama and detail -- Illusion and artifice -- A century of color -- Abstraction and modernism. Covering a comprehensive array of topics, from the first pigments and frescos to linear perspective in Renaissance paintings, the influence of photography, Impressionism, and the birth of modern art, The Story of Painting follows each step in the evolution of painting over the last 25,000 years, from the first cave paintings to the abstract works of the last 150 years. Packed with lavish color reproductions of paintings and photographs of artists at work and the materials they used, it also focuses on key paintings from each period to analyze the techniques and secrets of the great masters in detail. Provided by publisher. 20200211. Paintings History. Wilkes, Angela, editor. King, Ross, 1962-, writer of foreword. DK Publishing Inc., publisher, (Dorling Kindersley.)