The perfect miscellany for every art lover \u2013 an essential and engaging collection of facts, figures, and findings about art, artists, and the art world, past and present<\/p>\n
This extraordinary compendium of compelling facts, figures, and findings gathers and distils obscure and fascinating information about art, artists, and the art world. Fun, surprising, and compelling, in this covetable book you will learn:<\/p>\n
\u2013 which artist\u2019s work is stolen most often (Picasso)
\n\u2013 names of artists\u2019 pets: Fat Fat & Cous-Cous (Louise Nevelson\u2019s cats), Giotto and Goya (John Baldessari\u2019s dogs)
\n\u2013 artist couples (Nancy Rubins and Chris Burden; Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely; Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst)
\n\u2013 things artists collect: prosthetic arms and legs (Sophie Calle), glass eyes (Hiroshi Sugimoto)
\n\u2013 odd jobs and side hustles: telephone marketer (Tomma Abts), crop duster (James Turrell)
\n\u2013 artists who were rejected from art school (Francisco Goya, Auguste Rodin)<\/p>\n
… and hundreds of other miscellaneous details. Thoughtfully and thoroughly researched, this intriguing book offers refreshing and surprising perspectives on the world of art.<\/p>\n
Format: Hardback
\nSize: 178 x 120 mm (7 x 4 3\/4 in)
\nPages: 176 pp
\nIllustrations: 10 illustrations
\nISBN: 9781838663155
\nConceived and edited by Phaidon Editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45919,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"afm_hide_title":false,"_afm_post_new_title":"","afm_terms_sep_product_language":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_post_translations":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_brand":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_type":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_visibility":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_cat":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_tag":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_shipping_class":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_pos_product_visibility":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_pa_cindy-sherman-art-bag":", "},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[173,92,114],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25437","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-3106-anskaffede-boker","7":"product_cat-all-products","8":"product_cat-art-books","9":"product_shipping_class-div-product","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"group_of_quantity":0,"min_quantity":0,"max_quantity":"","exclude_order_quantity_value_rules":"no","exclude_category_quantity_rules":"no","combine_variations":"no","yoast_head":"\n