Leonardo, Frida and the Others: The History of Art, 800 Years-100 Artists

✰百張插圖匯集800多年藝術知識

本書宛如一本引人入勝的故事，透過淺顯易懂的文字以及豐富的插圖，讓讀者遨遊於800年的藝術長河之中。

作者 Camille Jouneaux 是一位藝術愛好者，在她學習繪畫時，很喜歡探索藝術背後的故事：不同藝術流派是如何誕生的？藝術作品中隱藏哪些寓意？藝術家的創作靈感源自何處？這些作品又是如何流傳至今？為了解答這些疑問，作者精心撰寫了這本兼具可讀性與知識性的藝術史。

本書涵蓋了從文藝復興時期至當代的藝術發展脈絡，從義大利的李奧納多•達文西（Leonardo da Vinci）、墨西哥的芙烈達•卡蘿（Frida Kahlo）再到英國的街頭藝術大師班克斯（Banksy），引領讀者領略各時代藝術的魅力。

不僅僅限於西方藝術，本書打破了傳統藝術史的框架，將中國、印度、澳洲原住民與非洲等地的藝術文化納入其中，呈現豐富多元的藝術世界。

除此之外，作者特別關注歷史上被忽視的女性藝術家，讓她們的作品重新被看見。例如擅長描繪母親及家庭日常的瑪麗·卡薩特（Mary Cassatt）以及抽象主義的瓊·米切爾（Joan Mitchell）等。

精美絕倫的插圖、清晰易懂的解說、詳實的年表和輔助閱讀的側欄，推薦給所有藝術愛好者！

This fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing timeline― from Giotto to Leonardo, Frida to Banksy.

When she became interested in painting, the author would visit museums and wonder about all the information she was missing. How did one style develop after another? What meanings were hidden in these works? What were these artists’ lives like? How did their works survive for so many years? She longed for the kind of essential knowledge that would enable her to decode a painting loaded with references. The result of her curiosity is a highly accessible and vividly illustrated book that brings together the fundamentals of eight centuries of art. It covers the basics about such topics as how museums are structured, how painters use proportion and perspective, the anatomy of a painting.
Jouneaux offers surprising comparisons between artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell, Delacroix and Rubens. Terms such as Baroque, Ukiyo-e, Graffiti, Cubism, Degenerate Art, and De Stijl are explored and explained. Non-western traditions are given much greater prominence than in other art history books – Chinese, Indian, Australian Aboriginal, and African Art are all included in the timeline. Numerous women artists who were overlooked during the author’s own education are restored to the canon. Accompanying the unpretentious but authoritative texts are hundreds of illustrations, reproductions, timelines and sidebars.