{"product_id":"9781419707513","title":"The Unfinished Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout history, works of art have been left unfinished, for a wide variety of reasons. Some of these have, over time, become as valuable—or more—as completed works by the same artist. Spanning the 15th to the 20th centuries, \u003ci\u003eThe Unfinished Painting\u003c\/i\u003e looks at 50 such works by old and modern masters, including Van Eyck, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Gilbert Stuart, Manet, Cézanne, Matisse, and Mondrian, and exposes the reason for each one’s abandonment, from the illness or death of the artist to war, lack of funds for materials, cancelled commissions, or dissatisfaction with the subject or medium. A discussion of the way unfinished works from centuries ago—some crude, some unpolished, some simply abandoned ideas—have influenced modern paintings in styles ranging from Cubism to Abstraction accompanies superb colorplates, revealing the past from an unusual vantage point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Unfinished Painting\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Marshaling famous and obscure examples . . . Van Hout tracks the unfinished painting into the modern era, when \u003ci\u003enon-finito\u003c\/i\u003e techniques such as Impressionism and Cubism become their own means to an end.” —\u003ci\u003eArt + Auction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Distribution General","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041625620720,"sku":"9781419707513","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781419707513_p0.jpg?v=1763728480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781419707513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}