A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso

A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso

by Paul Barolsky

147 pages· 2010· ISBN 9780271036755
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Explores art history and imaginative literature to show how fiction and history inform each other. Traces the modern idea of the artist to the epic tradition from Homer and Ovid to Dante, leading to Michelangelo. Examines how Vasari shaped Balzac's idea of the artist, and Balzac influenced Picasso's --Provided by publisher.

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