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Contains 40 colorplates, 65 reproductions and accompanying commentary on many of Picasso's works.

Art historian Tim Marlow explores the lives and works of the greatest artists in history. Filming takes place throughout the world.

"The Painted Word charts the erratic course of the social history of Modern Art from it beginnings in revolution - a revolution against literary content in art - to its present state, in which it has become, quite unconsciously, a parody of itself, obsessedly devoted to the pronouncements of certain guru-critics, to the point of reductio ad absurdum, to the point where - turnabout being fair play - it has become as literary, as academic, as mannered,...

Impressionism and the subsequent development of Post-Impressionism together constitute one of the major artistic innovations since the Renaissance. Mark Powell-Jones shows how novel ideas of the period about painting techniques, brushstrokes, canvas, light, subject matter, expression, realism, photography, the aim of painting and the role of the artist, all laid the foundations of modern art. The authoritative text takes into account new research...