This highly entertaining exploration of art, history, and commerce
reveals how 30 masterpieces made the journey from image to icon.
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. The book will open readers eyes to the artistic images
that have become universal touchstones and the fascinating stories
of how and why they got there.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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