Two Very Short Introductions to Art
Modern Art - A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington
Renaissance - A Very Short Introduction Art by Geraldine A. Johnson

Do you want to know more about art but haven't the time or inclination to plough through long books on the various aspects of the subject? If your answer is 'yes', then these two books from the authorititive Oxford University Press provides the ideal introductions to Modern Art and Renaissance Art, two very different subjects.

Here in the UK modern art is often in the news whether its a new and sometimes outrageous exhibition at Tate Modern or the latest acquisition by Charles Saatchi. Is there more to modern art than we see in tabloid headlines? Professor of Art History at University College Falmouth argues that there is. From Manet to Tracy Emin, modernist and contemporary artists have challenged perceptions and then, some of them become part of the accepted art establishment as their work endures and, perhaps just as important, rises in value.

The second book, on Renaissance Art, deals with a far less controversial subject. Most people have heard of the major artists of the period like Michaelangelo, Holbein, Leonardo da Vinci. The author, Geraldine A Johnson, lecturer in History of Art at Oxford University, looks at these artists as well as some of the lesser known ones. Additionally, she examines how they worked and saw their own art. She looks at women in the Renaissance and the place of story telling in art of the period.

These small and inexpensive books provide good introductions to the subjects they cover while not talking down to the reader.

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