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A Brief History of Painting: 2000 BC to AD 2000
by Roy Bolton (Introduction: Matthew Collings)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Running Press (2004-11-03)
ISBN: 0786713887
EAN: 9780786713882
Dewy Decimal #: 759
Paperback: 300 pages
SKU: 080709480
Condition: Fine
Comments: 0786713887 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Painting moves out of the soft glow of the gallery into the fresh, sometimes revisionary light of the twenty-first century in this authoritative and engaging history of art from ancient days to modern times. Insightfully, it explores the links to tradition and the breaks with artistic heritage. With a contemporary eye it looks again at the apogees in painting's history and revisits those moments on canvas, on paper, or plaster that altered forever the direction of the art. With an extended and lively introduction by the award-winning art historian and best-selling author Matthew Collings and text by art historian Roy Bolton, this chronicle illuminates where painting has been in the past four thousand years and where it may be going in the future. Each of the book's 150 illustrations, beautifully reproduced in full color, is accompanied by terse and incisive commentary on both the subject of the painting and its artist. Each illustration, too, marks a significant point in the course of painting's history out of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Italy; through the Renaissance and seventeenth century; from Classicism to Romanticism, from Impressionism to Modernism. Comprehensive in scope yet economically written, this handsomely designed guide informs as it delights.
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent book, well illustrated and well done
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-02-28
An excellent summary of each of over 250 artists, each with one representative example of his/her art. Illustrations are high quality and well described, with an informative thumbnail biography of each artist. This is a small-format book, well suited to survey-class student use as a reference. A previous reviewer seems to have had an axe to grind with coverage of female modern artists. This is perhaps a justifiable comment since 25% of the book's pages are dedicated to post-1900 works that are esoteric to the point of incommunicability, and females have probably had as much of a hand in this nefarious endeavor as men... .
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Writing women out of the arts
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-01-02
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you want a book that almost completely writes out of the record women artists of the 20th century, then this is the book for you.
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BEAUTIFUL
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-01-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
this book is great. perfect. easy to understand, and beautiful. every left page has the history of the artist, and the right page has a familiar famous painting of theirs. there is also a timeline. If you are interested in art, get this book.
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