The History of Art

by Anita Ganeri, Claudio Merlo

From Stonehenge, the pyramids, and Angkor Wat to the Renaissance, Rembrandt's workshop, African art, and surrealism, this book introduces children to art through the ages. To keep it simple, each development, breakthrough, or period is illustrated by a single representative work of art.

Genres: Reference, Art

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 1990

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Lynnette]

This is cool because it shows how artists most likely made their art. But, comes from an evolutionary perspective and there are a few nude pictures.