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This gently provocative book provides an engaging way for young people to start asking and answering questions for themselves. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWhy is art full of naked people?\u003c\/span\u003e is structured around 22 questions, each one tackled over two spreads. The opening spread explores the question and answer, inviting the reader to study a full-bleed image of an important artwork. The second spread shows a selection of work on the theme from across history, showing how art can run with an idea to hugely different ends. The tone of the text is fresh and informal but not flippant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAuthor: \u003cspan class=\"Polaris-Tag_375hg Polaris-Tag--removable_1q527 Polaris-Tag--newDesignLanguage_1rik8\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan title=\"Susie Hodge\" class=\"Polaris-Tag__TagText_lsfh6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusie Hodge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eIllustrator: \u003cspan class=\"Polaris-Tag_375hg Polaris-Tag--removable_1q527 Polaris-Tag--newDesignLanguage_1rik8\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan title=\"Claire Goble\" class=\"Polaris-Tag__TagText_lsfh6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaire Goble\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePublisher: Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eISBN: 9780500650806\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HACHETTE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36228263968922,"sku":"27273","price":15.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0440\/9016\/3354\/products\/Why_20is_20Art_20full_20of_20Naked_20People_20cover.jpg?v=1600190865"},{"product_id":"modern-art-explorer-discover-the-stories-behind-famous-artworks","title":"Modern Art Explorer: Discover the Stories Behind Famous Artworks","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"col col-12 sm-col-6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"px2 pr4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eModern Art Explorer\u003c\/i\u003e is a witty and brilliantly illustrated introduction to modern art for children that takes readers undercover to discover the stories behind thirty famous artworks from the Centre Pompidou's collection in Paris. By going behind the scenes and turning each artwork inside out, young readers will see that artworks aren’t remote monuments but real things that are shaped into being by ideas, inspirations, human lives, world events and the materials artists use. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChildren will be entertained and intrigued by a variety of engagingly specific details and buoyed by their ability to understand what these works of art are all about. Award-winning illustrator Serge Bloch’s cheeky, comic and energetic illustrations serve to illuminate the information and the ideas in each artwork. The thirty featured artworks themselves represent the work of a diverse range of modern and contemporary artists from one of the world’s most celebrated modern art museums. Modern art has never seemed so exciting!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: Alice Harman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIllustrator: Serge Bloch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize: 27.9 x 21.6 cm, 96 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h2 accordion\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9780500652206\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HACHETTE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41333161984154,"sku":"9780500652206","price":15.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0440\/9016\/3354\/products\/ModernArtExplorerCover.jpg?v=1638983431"},{"product_id":"mona-lisa-and-the-others-by-alice-harman-illustrated-by-quentin-blake","title":"Mona Lisa and the Others: by Alice Harman. 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Well, the Louvre’s many other masterpieces aren’t too happy about being overshadowed – and they’re here to tell everyone what makes them just as worthy of the Mona Lisa’s teeming crowds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a focus on portraits and other person-centred artworks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMona Lisa and the Others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals the stories behind some of the Louvre Museum’s most famous artworks. Napoleon Bonaparte takes readers behind the scenes at his own coronation; the Venus de Milo explains what happened to her missing arms; the Seated Scribe lets slip some gossip about the ancient Egyptian royal family; and Madame le Brun has a polite moan about juggling the demands of being Marie Antoinette’s portrait painter and a working mother. But perhaps most intriguing of all, Mona Lisa reveals that there’s more to her portrait than her mysterious smile…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in a light-hearted and contemporary style by Alice Harman, and illustrated with the energetic artwork of Sir Quentin Blake, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMona Lisa and the Others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an entertaining introduction to the Louvre Museum’s collection that will appeal to children, parents, guardians and teachers from all walks of life.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46573837615453,"sku":"NGI-0847","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0440\/9016\/3354\/files\/51KCLqFbnnL._SX388_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1682619583"},{"product_id":"splat-the-most-exciting-artists-of-all-time-9-12-yrs","title":"Splat!: The Most Exciting Artists of All Time  9-12 yrs","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDiscover the real-life stories of some of the greatest artists of all time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSplat!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces art history through the artists who helped to make important artistic innovations, including Michelangelo and the High Renaissance; Bruegel and his paintings of everyday peasant life; Manet and the shock of Impressionism; and Duchamp and the Dada revolution. Read the real-life stories of artists, such as Caravaggio, Jan Vermeer, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky and Frida Kahlo, who dared to imagine new ways of depicting the world. The achievements of these artists and the challenges, difficulties and dangers they faced are excitingly brought to life.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"HACHETTE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096788504925,"sku":"NGI-1985","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0440\/9016\/3354\/files\/81ipmhjc7tL._SY342.jpg?v=1708695764"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.nationalgallery.ie\/collections\/art-history-for-children.oembed","provider":"National Gallery of Ireland Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}