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Using examples of the work of some of the world's great artists, the author supports his theories of how great masterpieces were created.

"In 'The art of caricature' Edward Lucie-Smith traces the history of visual satire from its origins in classical wall paintings and ceremonial masks to its modern day appearance in newspapers and magazines. He discusses the early attempts at moral satire in church carvings of the Middle Ages, the crucial alliance of caricature and the press in the Renaissance, and the refinement of caricature as a political weapon in the eighteenth and nineteenth...

A biography of the Victorian Renaissance man explores Ruskin's wide-ranging interests in botany, geology, art criticism, and social theory, among other topics.

"Since the advent of cinema more than a hundred years ago, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion, and as the century ends, we notice that artists create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film or tape, on the dance stage, or in the ever changing, ever moving medium of clothes. In this collection of writing that ranges over art of this and other centuries with unusual depth of historical insight, critic Anne Hollander...