Art of Looking Up
$68.00
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2019
Summary
Art of Looking Up: Discovering the World’s Most Spectacular Ceilings
The Art of Looking Up surveys 40 spectacular ceilings around the globe that have been graced by the brushes of artists including Michelangelo, Marc Chagall and Cy Twombly.
From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to the religious iconography that adorns places of worship from Vienna to Istanbul, all the way to bold displays like that i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780711242173 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0711242178 |
| Author: | Catherine Mccormack |
| Publisher: | Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.55kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 298mm x 246mm |
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About The Author
Catherine Mccormack
Catherine McCormack is a writer and art history lecturer based in London. She regularly teaches at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Dulwich Picture Gallery and UCL, where she completed her PhD and was a Teaching Fellow. Her writing has been published in The Independent, Architectural Review, Stylist, Glass magazine, LABEL magazine, and in international academic journals and museum exhibition catalogues. She is also resident art expert at Blacks Club Soho and has appeared on Sky News and BBC Breakfast talking about art. Catherine is also the author of Women in the Picture (Icon Books, 2020).
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