Martin Kemp Books
Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
By Martin Kemp
How does an image become iconic? In this book, the author, an art historian offers a look at the main types of visual icons. This work illuminates eleven universally recognized images, both histori...
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Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance
By Martin Kemp
The Roman author Pliny tells the story - well known in the Renaissance - of the famous Greek painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear the comments of spectators. Martin Kemp ta...
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