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      Everything You Know About Art is Wrong

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      Who really invented photography? Why is the Mona Lisa really smiling? Which painting was hung upside-down for over a month before anyone noticed? This highly entertaining assumption-confounding, myth-busting book about art and art history has the answers.

      A highly entert...

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      Product ID:9781849944298
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:CN
      Title:Everything You Know About Art is Wrong
      Authors:Author: Matt Brown
      Page Count:160
      Subjects:The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, History of art, Cultural studies, History of art / art & design styles, Cultural studies
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      Who really invented photography? Why is the Mona Lisa really smiling? Which painting was hung upside-down for over a month before anyone noticed? This highly entertaining assumption-confounding, myth-busting book about art and art history has the answers.

      A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history.

      This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the intriguing, outrageous and often provoking world
      of the visual arts, nothing is quite as it seems.

      From the world’s first intance of photobombing in 1843 to the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Mars, the destruction of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers during World War II and the £3,500 sheet of paper crumpled into a ball, Everything You Know About Art is Wrong will confound your assumptions about the world of art – and perhaps even the place of art in the world.


      Imprint Name:Batsford Ltd
      Publisher Name:Batsford Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2017-08-24

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      Weight422 g
      Dimensions145 × 200 × 23 mm