Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art by Mary Anne Staniszewski

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

Mary Anne Staniszewski

320 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective fast-paced

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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? ...

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