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Creation
A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day
Buch von John-Paul Stonard
Sprache: Englisch

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**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES**'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness' LITERARY REVIEW
'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled The Story of Art' SUNDAY TIMES'This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful' COUNTRY LIFE_____________________________________

A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient
civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse.

Fifty thousand years ago on an island in Indonesia, an early human used red ochre pigment to capture the likeness of a pig on a limestone cave wall.

Around the same time in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from a fire and sketched four galloping horses.

It was like a light turning on in the human mind.

Our instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest Homo sapiens to understand the world around them, and to thrive. Now, art historian John-Paul Stonard has travelled across continents to take us on a panoramic journey through the history of art - from ancient Anatolian standing stones to a Qing Dynasty ink handscroll, from a drawing by a Kiowa artist on America's Great Plains to a post-independence Congolese painting and on to Rachel Whiteread's House.

Brilliantly illustrated throughout, with a mixture of black and white and full colour images, Stonard's Creation is an ambitious, thrilling and landmark work that leads us from Benin to Belgium, China to Constantinople, Mexico to Mesopotamia. Journeying from pre-history to the present day, it explores the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse, and asks how - and why - we create.
**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES**'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness' LITERARY REVIEW
'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled The Story of Art' SUNDAY TIMES'This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful' COUNTRY LIFE_____________________________________

A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient
civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse.

Fifty thousand years ago on an island in Indonesia, an early human used red ochre pigment to capture the likeness of a pig on a limestone cave wall.

Around the same time in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from a fire and sketched four galloping horses.

It was like a light turning on in the human mind.

Our instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest Homo sapiens to understand the world around them, and to thrive. Now, art historian John-Paul Stonard has travelled across continents to take us on a panoramic journey through the history of art - from ancient Anatolian standing stones to a Qing Dynasty ink handscroll, from a drawing by a Kiowa artist on America's Great Plains to a post-independence Congolese painting and on to Rachel Whiteread's House.

Brilliantly illustrated throughout, with a mixture of black and white and full colour images, Stonard's Creation is an ambitious, thrilling and landmark work that leads us from Benin to Belgium, China to Constantinople, Mexico to Mesopotamia. Journeying from pre-history to the present day, it explores the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse, and asks how - and why - we create.
Über den Autor
John-Paul Stonard
Zusammenfassung
John-Paul Stonard's research took him from Shanghai to Mexico City, Moscow to Japan, with a view to capturing a truly global perspective on human creativity - shifting the focus away from the achievements of Western art to a wealth of traditions throughout the world
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 460 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408879689
ISBN-10: 1408879689
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Stonard, John-Paul
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 253 x 197 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: John-Paul Stonard
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
Gewicht: 1,552 kg
Artikel-ID: 119536954
Über den Autor
John-Paul Stonard
Zusammenfassung
John-Paul Stonard's research took him from Shanghai to Mexico City, Moscow to Japan, with a view to capturing a truly global perspective on human creativity - shifting the focus away from the achievements of Western art to a wealth of traditions throughout the world
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 460 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408879689
ISBN-10: 1408879689
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Stonard, John-Paul
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 253 x 197 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: John-Paul Stonard
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
Gewicht: 1,552 kg
Artikel-ID: 119536954
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