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A short walk around the Pyramids and through the world of art
by Isaacson, Philip M., 1924-
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J 709 ISA
Alfred A. Knopf :, c1993.
120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 26 cm.
 
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Introduces tangible and abstract components of art, and the many forms art can take including sculpture, pottery, painting, photographs, and even furniture and cities.

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This elegant excursion, illustrated with photographs and reproductions in color, flows smoothly through a lucid discourse on the effects of form, light, and color on art viewers. Isaacson's appreciation of the pyramids is followed by chapters on sculpture, color, images in paintings, photography, useful objects, and towns and cities. Commentary throughout the book is enthusiastic and insightful. Notes on the featured works are included. Ind. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Exuding a sincere appreciation for the emotional impact of art, Isaacson's vividly eclectic tour from the pyramids to a magically photographed New York City forms an outstanding introduction to the rewards of looking at art. More than 70 beautifully presented examples acquaint readers with painting, sculpture, crafts, industrial design, photography and city planning--from Elgin Marble fragments to a Shaker village in Maine, from a Jackson Pollack drip painting to a Peruvian poncho. Simple but eloquent descriptions touch on color, form and the power of art to communicate across both centuries and cultures. The graceful layout allows ample opportunity for reflection stimulated by Isaacson's gentle observations on the links between a West African tribal funerary figure and a Jacques Lipchitz bronze, or on the sinuous harmony of a Karmann Ghia automobile photographed in front of the Guggenheim Museum. ``Art will make our hearts leap,'' he writes, and proves it on every page. Ages 8-12. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Once again, the author of Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish (1988) informs eye and mind with his lucid, intelligent approach to the visual arts. Here, he ranges from ancient structures through classical painting and sculpture to contemporary crafts--all in a logical progression from pure form to schematic and literal representation and to the impact of color and style on how images are perceived. His demonstration of the difference between photographs as simple records of the visual world and as art is admirably effective (the Taj Mahal is a work of art, for instance, but a photo of it usually isn't). Chapters on ``Useful Things,'' made handsome by the way their form follows function, and on communities--from traditional villages to a modern city--where architectural motifs are particularly harmonious, well integrated, and appropriate, are especially fascinating. The author (a Maine attorney and art critic) makes a splendid guide; his examples are a personal selection, some well known and some unfamiliar but all shrewdly chosen to illuminate ideas that could well spark a lifelong interest in art. (Many of Isaacson's own photos, more than two- thirds of the 84 color images here, are superb.) Beautiful, imaginative, and richly provocative. Notes on the art; index. (Nonfiction. 9+) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Gr. 5-8. Using the term art in its broadest sense, Isaacson explores how concrete elements such as color and form function in the abstract to help us appreciate a piece of artwork. Using intriguing samples of photography, sculpture, architecture, and painting, as well as forms children do not readily associate with art (the MR chair designed by Meis van der Rohe, a village in Nepal, a 150-year-old fence at Laval University in Quebec, Canada), he turns the world into a grand museum. He shows us how art is linked to our emotions, our culture, our spirituality, and our daily life and challenges us to find its rhythm and harmony even in the soaring skylines of big cities. Isaacson occasionally tries too hard to shape our responses, but his brief perspectives are sufficiently exciting to reshape our view of what constitutes art and to make us see it, and our surroundings, in new, different ways. The numerals found in the running text have the dual function of denoting the picture under discussion and serving as a key to appended information. Unfortunately, their large size is sometimes distracting. (Reviewed Sept. 15, 1993)0679815236Stephanie Zvirin

 
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