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Summary
Certain works of art-- Mona Lisa , the Statue of Liberty , Rodin's The Thinker , Grant Wood's American Gothic --are famous to everyone: those who love art and those who are generally indifferent to it. This volume considers 29 works of art and examines the ways in which they have transcended the art world and become facets of the popular imagination.
These art biographies are collected in five sections:
* Ancient Monuments
* Monuments to the Modern World
* Renaissance Art
* 19th-Century Art
* 20th-Century Art
Bibliographic entries and a subject index are included, making this the ideal resource for researchers seeking to find valuable analyses that enlighten both these famous works and the cultural traditions from which they have emerged as classics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Differences and Distinctions of Art in/to Popular Culture | p. xi |
1 Ancient Monuments and Monuments to Wealth: Travel and Tourism | p. 1 |
Stonehenge | p. 4 |
The Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu | p. 13 |
The Second Coffin of Tutankhamun | p. 22 |
The Great Wall of China | p. 32 |
The Taj Mahal | p. 40 |
2 Renaissance Masters: Scholarship and Museums | p. 49 |
Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera | p. 52 |
Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa | p. 60 |
Raphael Sanzio, The School of Athens | p. 68 |
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Adam | p. 79 |
Titian, Venus of Urbino | p. 89 |
3 Monuments to and of the Modern World: Money and Memory | p. 99 |
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, Liberty Enlightening the World (The Statue of Liberty) | p. 102 |
Gustave Eiffel, The Eiffel Tower | p. 112 |
Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, The Empire State Building | p. 120 |
Frank Lloyd Wright, The Guggenheim Museum | p. 130 |
Maya Lin, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial | p. 141 |
4 Nineteenth-Century Art: The Advertising Age of Artists | p. 151 |
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother | p. 155 |
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | p. 164 |
The Little Dancer, Age 14 | p. 173 |
Starry Night | p. 181 |
The Thinker | p. 189 |
Nympheas (Waterlilies) | p. 197 |
5 The Twentieth Century: Art and/into Popular Culture | p. 205 |
American Gothic | p. 209 |
The Persistence of Memory | p. 215 |
Nighthawks | p. 222 |
Autumn Rhythm | p. 228 |
Marilyn | p. 235 |
Untitled Mobile | p. 243 |
Untitled (Winged Baby) | p. 252 |
Wrapped Reichstag | p. 261 |
Index | p. 269 |