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How Artists See People: Boy Girl Man Woman
Examines how humans have been depicted in works of art from different time periods and places.
- GenresArt
Hardcover
First published August 1, 1996
About the author
Colleen Carroll
62 books2 followersTeacher, writer, art lover, gardener, shelter dog mama, collector of vintage quilts, American colored pottery, and Bakelite bracelets, mother of three beautiful and kind daughters, wife of the smartest, most decent human being I know, and grateful author of the How Artists See series, a project that was born while standing in front of a Wassily Kandinsky painting of a rainy day, and for 25 years has bestowed on me unimaginable gifts. I hope you enjoy my books, and thank you for choosing them.
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November 26, 2019
[See my review for How Artists See Animals for more commentary on the series as a whole]
There is a nice selection here--of artists from different historical periods and different styles of art. Paintings and sculptures, representational and abstract. Carroll asks great questions that invite further exploration. There are short bios of the artists, suggestions for further reading, and a list of museums at which one may view work from the artists. I wish there were also female artists represented (I'm not familiar enough with the names to know if any are artists of color), but this was written in 1996, so hopefully the updated editions will be more conscientious.
There is a nice selection here--of artists from different historical periods and different styles of art. Paintings and sculptures, representational and abstract. Carroll asks great questions that invite further exploration. There are short bios of the artists, suggestions for further reading, and a list of museums at which one may view work from the artists. I wish there were also female artists represented (I'm not familiar enough with the names to know if any are artists of color), but this was written in 1996, so hopefully the updated editions will be more conscientious.
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