30,000 Years of Art presents 1000 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world, arranged in chronological order for a general readership. Breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of art history, it celebrates the vast range of human artistry across time and space.
Each work is accompanied by key caption information such as date, title, place of origin, style or culture, medium, dimensions, etc., along with a short text providing more information and explaining the art historical context. The book presents art in a way 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 leads to compelling browsing, where surprising juxtapositions offer intellectual pleasure and a sense of wonder and discovery. The selection of works from across the world, arranged in the sequence in which they were made, takes the reader on a global and historical journey, as a Chinese Shang urn stands next to a Mycenaean vase, and Michelangelo's Slave is followed by a contemporaneous male sculpture from Nigeria.
The chronological arrangement responds to questions such as where does the earliest art appear? What were artists creating in China or Africa while Rembrandt was painting self-portraits in Leyden? How were similar subjects like equestrian themes, landscapes, and religious scenes manipulated by artists in Aztec Mexico and Medieval Europe?
Although the sequence of works in the book is strictly chronological, the selection of entries for an individual culture comprises an abbreviated history of the art of that people. Thus, while artworks from ancient Greece, the European Renaissance, or pre-Columbian Americas are interspersed with contemporaneous works created in Africa, India, or Japan, an extraction of the Greek, Renaissance, or American works could stand alone as an essential abridgment of the finest art.
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