Pop art- Short introduction
Art which is based on images of mass consumer culture. It is principally associated with the USA and Britain in the 1960s. The term originated in the discussions of the Independent Group c.1955. The originator of the phrase is disputed, but the British critic Lawrence Alloway later recalled ‘sometime between the winter of 1954–5 and [...]
Renaissance gardens
The Renaissance Garden in England Gardens, City Life, and Culture: A World Tour (Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Garden and Landscape History) The Renaissance garden was Italian in origin. It had two distinct phases, the first running through the Quattrocento and whose defining work was the great architect Leon Battista Alberti ‘s De Re Aedificatoria ( [...]
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