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“Art and Scandal The Naked Truth” is a collection of 23 short essays and images designed for contemporary audiences who want to know more about art history but don’t have time for classes or traditional art tomes. This concise, engagingly written eBook takes you inside the scandals that shook—and shaped—the art world dating to the early 16th Century. Some seem tame by today’s standards while others are as risqué as they were in their time. Written by art historian Sally Whitman Coleman, this Art Minute Guide (based on her blog, The Art Minute Short lessons in Art History®) makes the art, the artists and their backstories come alive. In the author’s words, “It may be hard to imagine that Michelangelo’s powerful frescos and John Singer Sargent’s lovely portraits were as controversial as artworks by today’s artists. Yet from the Renaissance on, artists, with their vision and craft, have threatened tradition and created a public uproar. This type of daring creativity is the artists’ agent of change that ultimately generates and defines the shape of art history.” After reading this book, you’ll sound really smart, be ready for informed museum-going and perhaps even be the hit of the cocktail party.
Art and Scandal The Naked Truth edition by Sally Whitman Coleman Arts Photography eBooks
This is a very nice book, really interesting. The chapter about the trials in art history is fantastic, with primary sources, useful for historians.I would have liked more details in the first chapters, where the information given is well known.
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Art and Scandal The Naked Truth edition by Sally Whitman Coleman Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
Art and Scandal is an easy and very entertaining read--really brought the artists to life! It provided clever "who knew?" stories about artists and their works. This is certainly more fun than my long-ago college art history classes!
I've been reading The Art Minute for awhile, and was delighted to read this accessible, fascinating, and enlightening book. I am an art lover who never got to study it, and now I have sone context for the art I love to see in museums finally.
This an entertaining and enlightening collection of relatively short essays on a variety of art works and art events mostly covering the modern era. The sub-subtitle of the book, "The Art Minute Short Lessons in Art History," provides a good description.
For the main part Professor Coleman regales us with tales about forgeries, stolen works, scandals, robberies, stupid critics, vandalism, artists on trial (with some verbatim testimony), and great artists behaving badly. All in all this amounts to a kind of breezy history of art from the sixteenth century to near the present told in something like ten easy-to-read pieces. There are 33 photo credits, most of which are for full-color photos of around 30 paintings.
Some of the essays center around particular famous paintings (e.g., the Mona Lisa), others around a particular artist (Vincent Van Gogh, et al.) while others touch on movements in art expressionism, cubism, even abstract sculpture. There's a piece on artists who managed to gross out art critics and the general public with bloody canvases--well, canvases carefully brushed with lividly red paint as in, for example, "The Gross Clinic," 1875 by Thomas Eakins.
I liked Coleman's clear and unpretentious prose and the creative effort she put into the titles and subtitles of her essays. For example "Not Exactly What I Had in Mind" presumably expressed Michelangelo's feelings when the Church ordered some cover for the naked figures in the artist's "Last Judgment." Indeed.
And a clever subtitle is "Manet Afternoon Delight" a sly allusion to Manet's famous "Le Dejuner sur l'herbe" (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863.
The final essay is about the still unsolved $500-million art heist at the Isabella Steward Gardner museum in Boston in 1990. Coleman's evocative title is in part, "A Job Well Done." (!)
But I think the heart of the book is in Coleman's learned explications of various paintings, precursor influences and their histories. Incidentally, I think every painting named was shown except for Salvador Dali's "The Enigma of William Tell."
All in all this is a tidy little book with beauty and erudition easily assimilated by the general reader.
--Dennis Littrell, author of "The World Is Not as We Think It Is"
"Art and Scandal The Naked Truth" is an illustrated collection of short articles about historical controversies in art.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who has studied art history that Matisse's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" or Manet's "Olympia" shocked the critics and the public when they were shown but I didn't know that Brâncuși's "Bird in Flight" was the subject of a 1927 court case to determine whether it was a duty-free unique work of art or an industrial metal object subject to a tariff of forty percent. Who knew that Copley, Sargent, and Whistler were, on occasion, as provocative as van Gogh, Picasso, or Duchamp? A few tales of art forgery and theft are also included.
These easy-to-read and quite gossipy articles give new interest to some well-known works and artists and will entertain both those with some knowledge of art history as well as readers who may only vaguely recognize a few of the topics.
A digital ARC was provided for unbiased review.
The fun facts are cool. You can read about things you will never learn from Art History text books. Hope there could be more details and analysis though.
This is a very nice book, really interesting. The chapter about the trials in art history is fantastic, with primary sources, useful for historians.
I would have liked more details in the first chapters, where the information given is well known.
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