In Amazeing Art, Christopher Berg showcases an astonishingly beautiful series of mazes depicting the wonders of the ancient world. From Stonehenge to the Colossus of Rhodes, he matches each with a capsule history that explains its background, and brilliantly evokes its mystery and significance. Fun, fascinating, and educational, Amazeing Art contains thirty-five mazes and their solutions printed on special easy-to-erase paper for the determined maze-solver.
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“A rare and delightful blend of whimsy and knowledge”- (--Sean Hemingway, Assistant Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum, New York )
“Christopher Berg ingeniously leads us into the mazes of antiquity.” (--Ulrica Hume, labyrinth facilitator, St. James Church, Piccadilly, London, and WordWalk )
“An entertaining and informative mixture of ancient gossip, modern speculation, and hard scientific fact.” (--Dr. Jeremy Rutter, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Dartmouth College )
“Christopher Berg ingeniously leads us into the mazes of antiquity.” (--Ulrica Hume, labyrinth facilitator, St. James Church, Piccadilly, London, and WordWalk )
“An entertaining and informative mixture of ancient gossip, modern speculation, and hard scientific fact.” (--Dr. Jeremy Rutter, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Dartmouth College )
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Think mazes belong in the back of a comic book with the jumbles and word-finds? Not anymore.
"A rare and delightful blend of whimsy and knowledge. Amazeing Art offers a unique introduction to some of the most fascinating monuments of the ancient world. Mr. Berg's mazes delight the eye and are wonderful discoveries in and of themselves." -- Sean Hemingway, assistant curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"An entertaining and informative mixture of ancient gossip, modern speculation, and hard scientific fact, Amazeing Art is a novel way to attract the attention of puzzle solvers of all ages and backgrounds to a rich assortment of antiquity's more impressive, yet still often mysterious, structures." -- Dr. Jeremy Rutter, professor of classical art and archaeology, Dartmouth College
"Christopher Berg ingeniously leads us into the mazes of antiquity. Each turn is marked by enigmas and enchantments, until finally, so caught up in the journey itself, one forgets that one is lost at all." -- Ulrica Hume, labyrinth facilitator, St. James Church, London
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Art, history, and wonder,
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This review is from: Amazeing Art: Wonders of the Ancient World (Paperback)
Amazeing Art combines graphic art portraits of about 30 architectural marvels of the ancient world with vivid, detailed accounts of their histories. And each masterful drawing is, unbelievably, a maze. There is a lot of text in the book, written with an infectious passion for the mysteries of the buildings and sculptures drawn beside them. It's hard not to get hooked and develop a sense of awe at the achievements of these old civilizations.The book is properly titled "Amazeing Art," not "Artistic Mazes." The ingenuity of the drawings rivals pen-and-ink artists like M.C. Escher, so the book is not just for maze-doers. It's for parents who enjoy some intelligent, diversionary reading--and for their children old enough to tackle challenging mazes. (In many families, it's the kids who will read and the adults who will play.) It's educational for both, with pictures and histories of the Sphinx, a Phoenician ship, the Tower of Babylon, the Parthenon, the Colossus of Rhodes, and many other masterpieces from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Greece, and Rome, including the treasures of the Hittites, the Trojans, the Ephesians, and other peoples. There's a lot to learn here, and the learning is great fun--if you can take your eyes of the drawings.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Amazeingly novel book!,
By Hans K. Pedersen, Pixar Anim. Studios (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amazeing Art: Wonders of the Ancient World (Paperback)
This book is incredibly original and inspirational. The author's enthusiasm for beautiful mazes is highly contagious. Anyone who likes cool ideas and puzzles (or just want to know the difference between a labyrinth and a maze) should take a look at this book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A tasty mix of mazes, labyrinths, and ancient mysteries,
By "patriciakaz" (San Francisco Area) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amazeing Art: Wonders of the Ancient World (Paperback)
This book is fun and different! The mazes were beautiful and tricky, and hard to do (I couldn't solve them all). The stories that went with them were filled with all kinds of fascinating tales and little known secrets about ancient civilizations. Especially the story of the Egyptian Labyrinth, which was a long-lost architectural wonder that ancient historians said was more impressive than the Pyramids. Super interesting!
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