Scholastic The Knowledge: Awful Art
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Price: £4.99
Brand: Scholastic
Description: First cave-dwellers hid their mammoth doodles in dark, damp caves. Next - you name it, they painted it - from luscious landscapes and mouldy meat to diabolical dream-sequences. Now anything can be art - building bricks, half a cow, even a bin full of rubbish!. Scholastic The Knowledge: Awful Art - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 8697
ISBN: 9780590192620
Author: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5
Review: This is an excellent in depth book on artists, In this book my children were able to find out the real truth about the art world - from Cave dwelling cave painters -poor artists - dead artists - artists that belive a pile of bricks is art! Art forgers and fraudsters its all here written in a very simple style tat although designed for the 10-12 yr old to get an understanding of art also givs some wonderful asides for adults. Great humour makes it very readable.Awful Art (The Knowledge)
Author: CobWeb
Rating: 4
Review: '......if you want to find out which artist liked to use toilet rolls as sketch pads, which one dyed his hair with boot polish and which one wanted to put dynamite in a duck's bottom - read on! Included are: 'Fascinating facts about the art that is so horribly old and ancient that even your head teacher won't remember it! Things about the art that is so new (and weird!) that the people who read the news on TV probably don't even know about it. Stories about the artists whose work was so nightmarish and shocking it caused a riot. Terrific tales of doxy fraudsters, fab finds, doomed daubers, jammy bodgers and genuine geniuses.... and......an interview with an apple!' If you have read the 'TOP TEN' and 'DEAD FAMOUS' series of books, you will be aware of the way in which MICHAEL COX puts knowledge across, in a humorous way. This book is no exception. 187 pages, split over 9 chapters: Introduction How art got off to a terrifying start Dotty, potty, squiffy ....and grotty The artists who tried to reach the parts of our brains that other art doesn't reach Oodles for doodles Nickers, pickers and trickers Here's some they made earlier Awful art - or is it? Epilogue Black and white illustrations/cartoons, quizzes and activities throughout.
