The Art In This Book Spans The Globe And Goes From The Stone Age To Last Year
This blocky pink book sets out to accomplish a big task: present a visual representation of humans and the art they've created — from the beginning. Starting with what our primitive ancestors put on the walls of caves and working its way through to today, each of the 600-plus pages presents a full-color, high quality image of an artwork, with text that discusses the work and its place in the world of art history. It's the second update to publisher Phaidon's book from 2007, bringing in even more contemporary work. And while the scope has gone up, the price has gone down.
Arranged chronologically and covering every corner of the world, you can see what Japan was doing while the French were discovering Impressionism or what was going on in Iraq around 2500 BC. It's an additive book that you'll put on your coffee table knowing just about everyone who stops by is going to pick it up and flip through its glossy pages — and it just might be a while before they put it back down.
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