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30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 1072 pages
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd (1 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0714847895
  • ISBN-13: 978-0714847894
  • Product Dimensions: 30.8 x 30.8 x 7.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,433 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Alastair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph.
Turning its pages is like wandering through spectacular museum only filled with masterpieces. The book's strengths are its radical format, bold design, and eye-catching price of less than £30 - or a pound for every millennium. ...

Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times
The huge 30,000 Years of Art is surely a bargain at just under £1 for each thousand years of world culture. Big shiny picture by big shiny picture, it flips you through the decades, down the centuries and through the millennia comparing art works from a global range of cultures. This has delightful curiosity value -- when Leonardo was painting his first realistic portraits, the Arawak people of the Dominican Republic were making ironwood pipes for inhaling hallucinogens. This is a delightfully fresh way of looking at art

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating look at the history of art, 13 Nov 2007
By K. Sohi "nabokovian tendencies" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is really beautifully produced book (which must surely be a requirement of a good art book!) which juxtaposes works of art from around the world. Rather than the thematic treatment that many other books give, this one looks at works of art from around the world chronologically (hence 30,000 years)- a rearrangement that is often surprising and delightful, occasionally jarring but always interesting! The inclusion of images from other cultures and the comparison with very well known works of art was a real eye opener- it really made me think about the relationship between the development of a culture and the art that it produces.

Furthermore the book is huge, with a great layout and and helpful index which probably makes it useful for those who want to learn a bit more about art as well as those who just want to appreciate the beautiful images.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Plan Your Museum Going for the Next 50 Years: Great Chronological Overview of Global Art from Prehistoric Times to Today, 16 Jan 2008
By Professor Donald Mitchell "a Practical Optimi... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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30,000 Years of Art is a hard-to-beat collection of 1,000 works of art that will bring you in touch with hundreds of works that you've never seen before. It's like taking 50 trips to museums you've never visited before.

If you are used to seeing the art canon displayed in a certain way, this book will expand your horizons. I was amazed at how many prehistoric works are just as abstract and "modern" as works I see produced today. The repetition of themes (such as the ubiquitous pregnant female) across cultures was also fascinating.

One of the nice surprises was that small objects are illustrated to scale so you approximate the experience of seeing the object in a museum from one angle.

I was also pleased by the large page size that allows larger works to be represented in a way that made more detail available to see. The drawback to the book is that there are no foldouts which would have many many of the enormous screens and sculptures easier to see in detail.

I found the book to be most rewarding in showing me art from countries that I seldom see works from and for providing lots of prehistoric works.

From a religious point of view the book is pretty ecumenical in terms of the major religions (except those that frown on literally representing what's on Earth).

Don't think, however, that this book will replace buying other art books. Many obvious world favorites aren't in this book. I don't know if it was for reasons of economy (reproduction rights being costly for important works) or to expand our horizons. I mentally "looked" at those works where they fell in chronological order.

The photography and printing are excellent. Bravo!

The main drawback is that the book is very heavy. I found that I could most comfortably read it in a recliner with a pillow to help hold up the heavier side.

If you decide to give only one art book as a gift this year, this is the book to give!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, wonderful price, 10 Jan 2008
...at the moment Amazon is selling this for less than £20 pounds, which has to make it one of the best deals in books at the moment. Even at full-price it's well worth it.

As the review above observes, it's a bit like having your own private wing of the British Museum or the National Gallery. Whilst there's not that much detail on the individual works (about as much as you might see in an exhibition catalogue) there's enough to whet your appetite and to find out more if you want.

But it's the variety that really sets this book apart. It's rare to find such a wide selection 'under one roof', and reading through one really does begin to get a feel for the chronological development of art as an adjunct to our daily lives over the past 30,000 years.

It is difficult to explain just how huge this book is - the dimensions and page count give you some idea, but perhaps the only disadvantage of it is that I spent so long engrossed in it I found its weight on my lap was sending my legs to sleep...
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