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Great artists steal: how artists really get their ideas
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The great masters of art earned their reputation for supposedly taking art in entirely new directions - for pioneering new techniques, breaking with tradition and busting norms - but behind almost every famous artwork you can find influence and inspiration artfully 'stolen' from elsewhere. This work takes over 30 ground-breaking artworks throughout history and shows how in truth they have their roots firmly in the past or in other works.
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