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Klappentext Following on from The Art Book published in 1994! 30!000 Years of Art offers an original and accessible introduction to art for a general readership. Unlike The Art Book! it organises the work in chronological order (rather than alphabetical)! it covers all cultures (not only western) and! as the title suggests! it covers 30!000 years of art (rather than art since the Renaissance). The book contains over 1000 works of art from all periods and regions in the world and breaks through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of art history to celebrate the vast range of human artistry across time and space. Each work is accompanied by key caption information (date! title! place of origin! style or culture! medium! dimensions etc.)! and a text that provides more information on the work and its art historical context. The book presents art in a way very different from other art history compendia! revealing the huge diversity! or in many cases! similarity! of man's artistic achievements through time and around the globe. Ordered chronologically! the resulting timeline of works will lead to compelling browsing: surprising juxtapositions will offer intellectual pleasure and a sense of wonder and discovery. 'Hokusai and Turner, Michelangelo and African sculpture, are some of the dramatic and unusual pairings in this impressive follow-up to The Art Book... High-quality colour reproductions [...] are accompanied by informative but concise descriptions that don't distract the reader from the work in hand. This enormous tome of encyclopedic proportions is an essential addition to any library.' The Bookseller, 31 August 2007 'fun to look at - You watch the slowly changing - or sometimes unchanging - progress of culture across six continents. - you can feel your outlook slowly expanding - this book has delightful curiosity value - there is plenty to fascinate' Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 23 October 2007 'gives you a vivid sense of how cultures and civilisations progress - helped to give me more of a shape to the history of art, rather than just seeing it as one bloody painting after another. - 30,000 Years of Art, by dint of the grandeur of its sweep, awakened within this thoroughgoing philistine a glimmer of awe in mankind's irrepressible itch to create. ' Robbie Millen, The Times, 23 October 2007 'a bold new publishing event that promises to redefine the parameters of art history ... glorious ... Turning its pages is like wandering through spectacular museum only filled with masterpieces. The book's strengths are its radical format, bold design, and eye-catching price of less than GBP30 - or a pound for every millennium. ... there are examples of every conceivable medium, from primitive sculpture to video art. The sweep of objects is huge ... One of the book's most beguiling - and novel - qualities is that it sheds light on the very different types of art produced simultaneously in far-flung cultures.' The Daily Telegraph, 27 October 2007 'a bargain ... reproduce[s] sumptuously exactly 1,000 images from world art at a cost of about three pence a shot. - delivers pleasingly bizarre juxtapositions: "Zemi", an ironwood carving from the Dominican Republic, alongside da Vinci's portrait "Ginevra de' Benci", both from 1475, say, or Dan Flavin's fluorescent "'Monument' for V. Tatlin 1" (1964) followed by "Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan" (1966) by Liu Chunhua. Reflecting the jam of discordant, competing images all around us, this anonymous tome, shaped and weighted like a tombstone, has an end-of-history feel. With little text but impressive timelines and glossaries, it is also the ultimate do-it-yourself story of art' Financial Times, 2 November 2007 'Strolling through this impressive gallery of a book is a delightful and illuminating experience. It is art from an unusual angle. Well-researched and cleverly designed, the book begins in the beginning and takes us to the most...
