Martin Kemp
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Image, branding, and logos are obsessions of our age. Iconic images dominate the media. Christ to Coke is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icons. It does so via eleven supreme and mega-famous examples, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue to function. Along the way, we encounter the often weird and wonderful ways that they become transformed in an astonishing variety of ways and contexts....
3) Leonardo
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Description
An exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work, identifying what it was that made him so unique. Tells of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his views on God, humans, and nature.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the world-renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty year journey with the work of the world's most famous artist. We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"This beautiful full-color book tells the stories of rivalries that not only stimulated and benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but also help shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack."--