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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Excellent photos entailing the world history of art going back 30,000 years. (  )phoenixcomet | Dec 15, 2008 |   While the photos are nice and it is interesting to walk through a point in time page by page, country by country; there is next to no named women represented in this book. I anticipate women to be under-represented in a collection of influential art but from 1900 to 1995 (~1,000 pgs) there are exactly 3. (  )michanne | Aug 9, 2008 | Don't let the fact that you must be strong of arm to even lift this book stop you! It's an amazing overview of art through the eons -- one item per page with a brief couple of paragraphs about it -- let's you page through history and see what artists around the world were creating. And if that's not enough, at the end of the book are some fascinating timelines that let you compare who/what was happening in different areas of the world at the same time. What art was happening in South America when the Mona Lisa was painted? g3orgia | Apr 9, 2008 | This enormous work provides an image and accompanying text information about 1000 of mankinds' greatest or most significant works of art over the past 30,000 years. It's a great way to present the information, although perhaps a little too awkward and heavy to read in bed. (  )scampus | Dec 30, 2007 | 0.026 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0714847895, Hardcover)30,000 YEARS OF ART: THE STORY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY ACROSS TIME AND SPACE is the follow-up to Phaidon's phenomenally successful THE ART BOOK. This is an accessible, fun and informative compendium of world art that offers a fresh perspective on the whole of art history, from 28,000 BC to the present day. It debunks art historical classifications and hierarchies by presenting 1,000 masterworks of art in simple chronological order, demonstrating what was being created all over the globe at the same time. Only here can you find the Venus de Milo next to a mural from the Mayan civilization, or Velazquez' Las Meninas next to a painting from the Chinese Ming Dynasty, an Indian jade wine cup, a ritual Nepalese plaque, a Korean portrait, and Vermeer's Milkmaid. Each work has been chosen for its unique place in the history of art, and as a representative example of the art of its culture. By juxtaposing works of art from different cultures throughout time, this is the first book to offer a balanced appraisal of world art history, revealing the huge diversity of and similarity between man's artistic achievements.Each entry includes a full-page color image of the work and a concise descriptive text that sets the work in context, explaining its contribution to the development of art and the medium in which it was created. A comprehensive index, illustrated timelines, and a glossary of terms and movements make this book an invaluable reference tool and teaching resource. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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