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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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062 Politics and Polemics

Art can sometimes advocate, take a position, or persuade. While political and social issues come and go, some polemical works have endured.

The Disasters of War, 1810–1820. Françesco Goya (1746–1828). (See opposite) This is a suite of etchings that exposes the brutality of war.

The Raft of the Medusa, 1818–1819. Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). (See opposite)

The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, 1867–1869. Édouard Manet (1832–1883). Manet used flattened space and graphic strength to convey the machinelike brutality of the execution.

Guernica, 1937. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Picasso used highly personal vocabulary to protest a bombing.

F-111, 1964. James Rosenquist (1933–2017). Created during the Vietnam ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431