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The Resource Mona Lisa to Marge : how the world's greatest artworks entered popular culture, Francesca Bonazzoli, Michele Robecchi ; preface by Maurizio Cattelan

Mona Lisa to Marge : how the world's greatest artworks entered popular culture, Francesca Bonazzoli, Michele Robecchi ; preface by Maurizio Cattelan

Label
Mona Lisa to Marge : how the world's greatest artworks entered popular culture
Title
Mona Lisa to Marge
Title remainder
how the world's greatest artworks entered popular culture
Statement of responsibility
Francesca Bonazzoli, Michele Robecchi ; preface by Maurizio Cattelan
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
Summary
How did paintings such as the 'Mona Lisa', 'Birth of Venus', and 'The Scream' achieve worldwide recognition? Why do certain works of art populate T-shirts, coffee mugs, calendars, and advertising? Witty and well researched, this accessible exploration of visual and popular culture reveals how particular works of art have become part of the collective imagination. Readers will learn that Myron's 'Discobolus' only became widely known when the sculpture was used to promote the Olympics, that the success of Leonardo's 'Last Supper' is due to the fact that it was one of the first paintings to be mass-reproduced, that the 'Mona Lisa' became a celebrity only after being stolen from the Louvre, and that 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was deemed a minor Vermeer until it became the subject of a bestselling novel. Ranging from the classical to the contemporary, travelling through the Renaissance, Impressionism, Surrealism, and abstraction, 'Mona Lisa to Marge' offers insights that are in turn thought provoking, irreverent, and surprising. Generously illustrated, the book features the original artworks as well as the cartoons, ads, book and album covers, and everyday objects they inspired
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Bonazzoli, Francesca
Dewey number
700.1/04
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
N72.S65
LC item number
.B6613 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Robecchi, Michele
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Art and popular culture
  • Masterpiece, Artistic
Label
Mona Lisa to Marge : how the world's greatest artworks entered popular culture, Francesca Bonazzoli, Michele Robecchi ; preface by Maurizio Cattelan
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Translated from the Italian
Bar code
31223107447212
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
143 pages
Isbn
9783791348773
Lccn
2013016788
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
843010416
Label
Mona Lisa to Marge : how the world's greatest artworks entered popular culture, Francesca Bonazzoli, Michele Robecchi ; preface by Maurizio Cattelan
Publication
Note
Translated from the Italian
Bar code
31223107447212
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
143 pages
Isbn
9783791348773
Lccn
2013016788
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
843010416

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