Realisation-From Seeing to Understanding - The Origins of Art

How our changing world view, from a flat earth to a spinning planet, has affected our attitudes, architecture and art.

About the author

JULIAN SPALDING’S books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize) and The Best Art You’ve Never Seen. He was formerly Director of Art Galleries in Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow (including the Burrell Collection and Kelvingrove) and established The Ruskin Gallery, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, the Open Museum and, as Master of Ruskin’s Guild of St George, the Campaign for Drawing.

Summary

A short, readable, original and compelling account of how and why societies evolved as they did over the last 35,000 years. And of the crucial, and changing, role of art and architecture in this evolution.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Spalding, Spalding Julian
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781908524454
• ISBN: 978-1-908524-45-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art