书名：Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art、Artists、and the Art World / 艺术的那些事：关于艺术、艺术家和艺术世界的迷人事实
定价：145.0
ISBN：9781838663155
作者：Phaidon Editors
版次：1
出版时间：2022-02

内容提要：

题 目：Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art、Artists、and the Art World / 艺术的那些事：关于艺术、艺术家和艺术世界的迷人事实

作 者：Phaidon Editors

出 版：Phaidon，2022

装 帧：精装，176页

尺 寸：12*17.8 cm

 

 

The perfect miscellany for every art lover - an essential and engaging collection of facts, figures, and findings about art, artists, and the art world, past and present

 

This extraordinary compendium of compelling facts, figures, and findings gathers and distils obscure and fascinating information about art, artists, and the art world. Fun, surprising, and compelling, in this covetable book you will learn:

 

- which artist's work is stolen most often (Picasso)

- names of artists' pets: Fat Fat & Cous-Cous (Louise Nevelson's cats), Giotto and Goya (John Baldessari's dogs)

- artist couples (Nancy Rubins and Chris Burden; Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely; Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst)

- things artists collect: prosthetic arms and legs (Sophie Calle), glass eyes (Hiroshi Sugimoto)

- odd jobs and side hustles: telephone marketer (Tomma Abts), crop duster (James Turrell)

- artists who were rejected from art school (Francisco Goya, Auguste Rodin)

 

... and hundreds of other miscellaneous details. Thoughtfully and thoroughly researched, this intriguing book offers refreshing and surprising perspectives on the world of art.

 

The five page-turning chapters cover:

- Artists

- Art School

- Art Studio

- Art Museum

- Art World