Following on from "The Art Book" (1994), "30,000 Years of Art" provides an original and accessible way of looking at art. On its publication in 2007, "The Daily Telegraph" described it as 'a bold new publishing event that promises to redefine the parameters of art history'. In this mini format edition of the book, 500 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world have been carefully selected from the original book and are again arranged in chronological order, breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of art history to celebrate the vast range of human artistry across time and space. The book presents art in a way different from other art history compendia, revealing the diversity, or in many cases similarity, of man's artistic achievements through time and around the globe. Ordered chronologically, the resulting timeline of works leads to compelling browsing: surprising juxtapositions offer intellectual pleasure and a sense of wonder and discovery. The selection of works from across the world, arranged in the sequence in which they were made, takes the reader on a global and historical journey, responding to such questions as 'where does the earliest art appear?' What were artists creating in China or Africa while Rembrandt was painting portraits in Leyden? How were similar subjects - equestrian themes, landscapes, religious scenes - manipulated by artists in Aztec Mexico and Medieval Europe? While artworks from ancient Greece or the European Renaissance or pre-Columbian Americas will be interspersed with contemporaneous works created in Africa, India or Japan, an extraction of the Greek or Renaissance or American works could stand alone as an essential abridgement of the finest art of that period or culture. The selection of works is non-hierarchical and includes both fine and decorative arts - most commonly painting and sculpture, but also textiles, masks, ceramics and jewellery. Primarily functional arts (furniture, architecture, industrial and graphic design etc.) are not covered. Each work is accompanied by key caption information (date, title, place of origin, style or culture, medium, dimensions etcetera), and a text that provides critical review of the work, placing it in its art historical context and thus explaining its contribution to the development of the history of art.
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Contributors include some 35 museum curators, academics and archaeologists from the UK, Europe and the US, all of them specialists in their fields of art history. Authors include - Dr Jaromir Malek, the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, on Egyptian art - Professor Sheila Blair, Boston College, Massachusetts, on Islamic art - Professor Keith Pratt, University of Durham, on Chinese and Korean art - Dr Crispin Branfoot, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on Indian art - Dr Alisa LaGamma, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, on African art - Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, Wessex Archaeology, on Iron Age European art - Professor Robin Conningham, University of Durham, on Indus Valley art - Dr Jean Turfa, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, on Etruscan art - Dr Sarah Symmons, University of Essex, on 18th- and 19th-century Western art
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This is a small format book with tiny images. I understood it was small, but many of the images are much smaller than they needed to be to fit. I think its main value is as a quick reference, or to pique one's interest in something new. For the low price, that's fine.
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A Great Non-serious Reference,
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For the price I paid, I can't beat the amount of entertainment I get out of this little book. Meant for people who don't have the patience to read weighty tomes on art history or never took a class on it, this volume's progression through art is more linear than other books on art history, which sometimes spend much more time covering recent art. However, the concise explanations below each work, one work per page, are all equally valuable.Flaw-wise, the biggest shortcoming is just the small size of the artwork. But, this book has been so fun to read that I am now considering buying the larger version from the same publisher, 30,000 Years of Art. Recommended for sure if you have $10 to spare and are interested in learning a bit more about art.
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It's better than your friend's coffee table books!,
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This is a coffee table book I bought at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Looking at my bookshelf, it's a little bit bigger than my copy of The Hobbit, so don't expect to become an expert on art from the last 10,000 years. But it is useful in serving its purpose, which is twofold: 1) highlight major milestones and achievements through the past 10 millenia, 2) show your friends, who have the last 3 issues of Cosmo on their coffee tables, that you are more cultured than they.
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