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Item Details
| Title:
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MIRROR OF THE WORLD
A NEW HISTORY OF ART |
| By: |
Julian Bell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£18.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0500287546 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780500287545 |
| Publisher: |
THAMES & HUDSON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 March, 2010 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? This book considers such questions. It discusses dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings and jewel-like Persian manuscripts. |
| Synopsis: |
What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in his highly acclaimed book, now available in paperback. Bell, himself a painter, takes a global perspective and uses a wide range of objects to set up juxtapositions that will challenge and enlighten the reader: dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings and jewel-like Persian manuscripts are discussed side by side as testaments to mankind's universal creative instinct. Highly original in its ideas yet brilliantly straightforward in its prose, this book will appeal to everyone who wants or needs, for purposes of study, the whole picture of the history of art in one concise and authoritative volume. |
| Illustrations: |
372 illustrations, 267 in colour |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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