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Like a visit to a single museum that happens to house all the major works from all the major movements in art, architecture, and visual and decorative arts, this hefty tome lives up to its title. From pre-history to present day, cave paintings to computer art, it delivers on its promise to bring together "art from every age and from every corner of the world." In 720 pages and more than 2,200 color illustrations, this includes, in addition to the traditional disciplines, fashion, advertisement, performance art and theater, and computer-generated virtual art. Readers can research, peruse, study, or simply flip through the history of art, arranged geographically and chronologically and placed in social and historical context. Call-out boxes focus on particularly important features of the period, culture, or environment under examination, and summary timelines highlight whole chapters in a few pages and break up running text on each page. This makes for busy pages, chock-full of textual and visual information, but if anyone can successfully present too much information, it's Dorling Kindersley. There's even a section on the aesthetic importance of nouvelle cuisine, a late 20th century style of preparing and presenting food. You can't get that in Gardner's.
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Translated from Arte storia universale, which was published in Italy in 1997, this is an attempt to reformat the narrative approach found in Janson, Gardner, and other one-volume surveys. The result can best be described as "sound bites," brief 50- to 500-word discussions of artists, topics, styles, and historic moments, presented via multiple columns, text boxes, time lines, and the like. The unsigned introduction's claim to have "combined the art of the Old, New, and developing worlds into a continuous narrative" is not quite true; the design instead fragments the text, which is hard to focus on or even find among all the visuals. Despite a number of uncommon images, these visuals tend to be small and often garish. Multiple authorship (by more than 25 Italian writers) leads to further disjunction, although most of the text reads well enough, considering. The book does deliver its promised weighting toward modern and contemporary art, but the glossary and two-page bibliography are inadequate. Stay with Janson or Gardner.?Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Like a visit to a single museum that happens to house all the major works from all the major movements in art, architecture, and visual and decorative arts, this hefty tome lives up to its title. From pre-history to present day, cave paintings to computer art, it delivers on its promise to bring together "art from every age and from every corner of the world." In 720 pages and more than 2,200 color illustrations, this includes, in addition to the traditional disciplines, fashion, advertisement, performance art and theater, and computer-generated virtual art. Readers can research, peruse, study, or simply flip through the history of art, arranged geographically and chronologically and placed in social and historical context. Call-out boxes focus on particularly important features of the period, culture, or environment under examination, and summary timelines highlight whole chapters in a few pages and break up running text on each page. This makes for busy pages, chock-full of textual and visual information, but if anyone can successfully present too much information, it's Dorling Kindersley. There's even a section on the aesthetic importance of nouvelle cuisine, a late 20th century style of preparing and presenting food. You can't get that in Gardner's.
From Library Journal
Translated from Arte storia universale, which was published in Italy in 1997, this is an attempt to reformat the narrative approach found in Janson, Gardner, and other one-volume surveys. The result can best be described as "sound bites," brief 50- to 500-word discussions of artists, topics, styles, and historic moments, presented via multiple columns, text boxes, time lines, and the like. The unsigned introduction's claim to have "combined the art of the Old, New, and developing worlds into a continuous narrative" is not quite true; the design instead fragments the text, which is hard to focus on or even find among all the visuals. Despite a number of uncommon images, these visuals tend to be small and often garish. Multiple authorship (by more than 25 Italian writers) leads to further disjunction, although most of the text reads well enough, considering. The book does deliver its promised weighting toward modern and contemporary art, but the glossary and two-page bibliography are inadequate. Stay with Janson or Gardner.?Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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