Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art Paperback - 1995
by Mary Anne Staniszewski
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Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph more "art-like" than a Da Vinci portrait? How did the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance see their creations? And who decides what art is today? In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan and John Berger, this learned and deliciously subversive book gives us a new way of seeing our artistic heritage. Believing Is Seeing is a work of multicultural scope and glittering intelligence that bridges the gulf between classical Japanese painting and the films of Spike Lee, between high theory and pop culture. Probing beyond the rhetorical surface of standard art histories and drawing on a panoramic array of illustrative material, Mary Anne Staniszewski throws a fresh light on individual works and the often mystifying criteria by which they are valued.
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- Title Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
- Author Mary Anne Staniszewski
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1995-01-01
- ISBN 9780140168242 / 0140168249
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 6 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Masterpiece, Artistic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94001449
- Dewey Decimal Code 700
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