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published
October 22nd 2007
by Phaidon Press Ltd
binding
Hardcover, 1072 pages
isbn
0714847895
(isbn13: 9780714847894)
description
30,000 YEARS OF ART: THE STORY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY ACROSS TIME AND SPACE is the follow-up to Phaidon's phenomenally successful THE ART BOOK. This is a...more
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Read in December, 2008
This was an awesome book I was fortunate enough to find on sale at Barnes and Nobles. The premise is that the authors picked the most influential or definitive pieces from every age (pretty much their favorites) starting 30,000 years ago and working up to the present. I'm not really into "art," but there is a lot of pretty amazing history and there are hundreds of beautiful things in the book to look at. The only gripe is that some of the pictures on the page are kind of small, but ...more
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Read in January, 2008
It truly is human creativity over time and space. 30,000 years is a very long time. 1,000 masterworks from around the world all cultures and countries from cave drawings to the 20th century in chronological order.
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12/11/07
Anna
marked it as to-read
Hmmm. I've been looking at this book (thank you, Lena) for an hour now, wondering if it will be as good as it sounds, thinking it probably won't - that it can't be.... but it looks absolutely ...delicious.
My clearly impaired ability to make straightforward decisions (it's a one-click, totally non-committing thing for crying out loud) and my inner vision of devouringa chocolate cake makes me thik it's time to sign off for dinner.
My clearly impaired ability to make straightforward decisions (it's a one-click, totally non-committing thing for crying out loud) and my inner vision of devouringa chocolate cake makes me thik it's time to sign off for dinner.
Read in November, 2007
A great coffee table book dedicated to art. Just flipping through this book to see the photos of artifacts is already a feast to the eyes but once you have time to read on, you will find more information to widen your appreciation in them.
This book also makes a great present. I gave couple of them as 2008 New Year gifts to friends and they all raved about it!
Highly recommended!!!
This book also makes a great present. I gave couple of them as 2008 New Year gifts to friends and they all raved about it!
Highly recommended!!!
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Read in February, 2008
recommends it for:
all art and art history buffs and those interested in human creativity
This is actually an amazing book but it doesn’t get 5 stars from me because so much is left out that I wish was included. I especially like the timeline that shows the history of the art along with general human history. I doubt that I will ever read every page of this book, the way I normally do with art books.
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04/23/09
Rhesa
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This looks good actualy, but it's so biggg!!!, almost the size of a small table. I'll need to pay extra baggage to carry this on the plane. Well hopefully gonna see this book in Jakarta soon. I'd rather buy this than the small 10,000 years one also recently published by Phaidon.
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Read in December, 2007
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Gift book from the Tibbles!
This book has alot of ground to cover. It goes page by page matching art from all cultures at the same time at the pace of about 100-1000 years per page, picking one particular piece with some short text.
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Big and clumsy and pretty much focused on the mainstream, but for the price, you can't beat this, and the layout, design and big, beautiful reproductions of art can't be beat.
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03/05/08
Chloe
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This was a birthday present. It arrived by mail and is the size of a smallish meteor.
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Read in September, 2008
Why does a book so big STILL leave out many artists! And worse, it's hardly informative.
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
everyone and anyone with even the slightest interest in art or history
I may or may not be biased, but this is a fantastic book.
02/20/08
Ellis
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Anyone wanna get me this book??
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06/10/09
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Read in June, 2009
recommends it for:
Art and art history lovers. Anyone who loves beautiful art and objects de' art.
Got this for my birthday. It is exquisite. It will take 30,000 years for me to read, reread and digest.
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