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Art That Changed the World tells the story of every major art style, movement by movement, giving art lovers a visual timeline showing key paintings that sparked each transition and explaining major events that shaped their evolution.
Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.
- Sales Rank: #41972 in Books
- Brand: Johnsen, Kate (EDT)
- Published on: 2013-08-19
- Released on: 2013-08-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 12.20" h x 1.30" w x 10.20" l, 4.75 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Aside from being an art lover's muse, Art That Changed the World is a perfect coffee table solution for any home in need of conversation or enlightenment" – The Art Mag
"Informative new book on history of art movements makes a loaded subject an easy and enjoyable read." – Utne Reader
About the Author
Iain Zaczek was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has since gone on to forge an impressive career as a freelance writer on art- and Celtic-related subjects, and is interested in particular in Pre-Raphelite art and International Gothic. His publications include Essential Art Deco, Essential William Morris, The Art of the Icon, Lovers in Art and Impressionist Interiors. He is also working on a BBC website called Your Paintings.
Jude Welton originally trained as a child psychologist specialising in autism. She is a freelance writer and the author of several popular, child-friendly books published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Jude lives in Moray, Scotland.
Lorrie Mack is a journalist and stylist specializing in home-interest subjects. Her books include Chairs, Cushions and Coverings, House Style, Living in Small Spaces, The Art of Home Conversion, and Making the Most of Work Spaces. She also writes for a number of consumer magazines including Homes & Gardens, Period Living, Homes and Ideas and Inspirations.
Ian Chilvers is editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, and co-editor of The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
It's impossible not to love this book, a 30,000 year look at art
By Jeff Wignall
I know I'll sound a bit like Will Rogers saying it, but I have never met a DK book that I didn't like. Check that: I've rarely met a DK book that I didn't absolutely love--and this book is no exception. In fact, this is one of the books that has made me such a huge fan of DK. While they do cut some informational corners on some books (I recently reviewed their book "The Animal Book" and was disappointed they didn't include any Latin names, for example), overall their comprehensive nature and excellent design and presentation are stellar--and again, this book is no exception.
The 400-page book takes you through an enormous range of art history, from 30,000BCE cave art (including a good description of the opening to the public of the cave art at Lascaux, in Montignac, France in 1948) to the Pop Art movement. Strangely the book ends in 1995 and doesn't continue into the 21st century and maybe there is an explanation for that in the book but I haven't found it yet. Along the way the book covers (more extensively than you might imagine for a 400-page book--which is part of DK's genius) virtually every major art movement. I just finished writing a book on color for a British publisher and spent a considerable time piecing together a timeline of some early concepts of color from cave drawings to ancient Eygpt--and I wish I'd had this book! It has a timeline already done and it's exactly what I needed.
Each chapter in this book covers a major art movement or period in history that include: Ancient and Medieval art, Renaissance and Mannerism, Barogue to Neoclassicism, the 19th Century and the Modern Age. Within each of these periods is a breakdown that made up the major movements. I'm not an art expert of any sort, so I don't really know how complete (or accurate for that matter) the information is, but it seems very authoritatively written and provides enough detail to make the history interesting without making your eyes glaze over. In fact, the writing throughout this book is very very accessible and you will not feel put off at all by the writing--and that's rare for art history books that tend to assume the reader is either a moron or a scholar. This is very much an every-person's book of art history. It is the best of this type of encyclopedic writing.
One of my favorite features of the book are the many timelines that not only tell you the major events in chronological order, but that also show you. It's interesting, for example, to see the Mona Lisa placed along a timeline so that you get an appreciation for when da Vinci painted it--and what other work was being produced at the same or nearby time periods. Fascinating if you ask me.
There are two indexes in the book: an index of artists (excellent--it includes birth and death information and page references) and a general index. The general index is more about movements than artists and I found that a bit frustrating. If you are looking up, say, David Hockney, you have to remember that he is not in the general index, but only in the artists index. On my first few reads of this book I thought they had omitted him. But this is a minor annoyance, once you know that there are two indexes, you get used to it.
The reproduction in the book ranges from acceptable to excellent. There are very few "soft" images (in terms of resolution--but there are a few) in the book and the color fidelity is very good considering the scope of the book. It's nearly impossible for any publisher to have to reproduce so much work (most of it from existing photography) and hit it perfectly each time. You just can't expect that in this type of book. The paper is nice, the type fonts are easy to read and with the exception of the fact that I *hate* black pages (each chapter opens with one), I think the book is very nicely designed.
For anyone that wants a fairly comprehensive look at the history of art, that is as fascinated by timelines as I am, and that just wants to browse through art history, this is an extremely worthwhile book. If you have a child in high school or college, I would buy them this book whether they wanted it or not--eventually they'll thank you. You can spend a month looking up all this stuff online or you can sit in front of the TV and find it all in one book. Guess which one I'd choose. :)
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
A nice survey of global art through time, but alternatives exist
By Jesse Walker
This book is an attempt by DK to cover the world's art. While it can't do it all, for the most part it succeeds, and this is a nice book. It's a 10x12" hardback, and almost 400 pages, all in full color with plenty of great selections of art from around the world, so there's plenty here to enjoy. The book is broken up into sections by particular artistic styles and periods, starting with cave art and progressing all the way to present-day realism, with plenty in between. There are plenty of little "asides" throughout the book, like short biographies of key artists, which was nice.
The book focuses primarily on paintings, with much less emphasis on sculpture and pretty much none on photography (as a professional photographer, I was a little disappointed). Each section is broken down in a repeated predictable format: context (historical background), beginnings (early works from the period), turning point (never quite figured out what this was), timeline (showing historical and artistic developments of the period), and masterwork (an in-depth look at a particularly well-known example exemplifying the style). In all, that made up about ten pages for each period, which for some periods felt like too little coverage (I found myself wanting to know more about Pictish stonework, which received all of two sentences and a thumbnail-sized image, for example), but the book obviously couldn't do it all in great depth.
I found the title a bit perplexing, as there's little commentary on how any of the art in the book "changed the world".
Anyway, if you want a nicely produced book of art from around the world throughout time, this ain't bad, but plenty of other great choices are available. Here are a few I like:
Janson's History of Art is THE typical text sought after by college students and professional artists that are really into this stuff. It's huge, it's expensive (though previous editions aren't much different, and are much cheaper), and is excellent. It's about Western Art.
Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism is similarly focused on Western art.
Other good art history books with a more global focus include:
The Art Book
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
Art: A World History
Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary
The Collins Big Book of Art: From Cave Art to Pop Art
None of the above would be a bad choice, and many of those are available more inexpensively than this book, particular if you would consider a used copy.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Hard To Complain, As Long As You Know What You Are Getting
By Severian
This is the typical DK format: 400 pages, slickly glossy, superficial depth as far as analysis and formal history, but plenty of nice pictures. For some topics (science, the Civil War) this format does not work well, but for art, things generally click.
The nicest points about this book:
1) most pictures are large, very few postal stamp sized illustrations (like those that marred the DK "Battle" book...) Details of the selected works are clearly visible and the color duplication is accurate as far as I can tell.
2) DK finally has gotten the binding down - the book has not already begun to fall apart after being read, a problem with prior DK products in the past.
3) Surprising insight in the text, and no major bloopers spotted. I am moderately familiar with art history but learned a few things here, and saw nothing really dreadful in terms of mistakes. An MFA might learn less and spot some more mistakes, but most novice and intermediate art fans will enjoy and learn.
4) The timelines help to document what else was going on in the world when the various works were composed.
5) The selected masterpieces almost all include artist bios as well, on the same pages.
6) The editors show generally good taste and perceptivity in their selections.
What's Not To Like?
1) The Table of Contents lacks the level of detail of some other DK titles. The selected masterpieces for instance are not individually listed in the Table. If you want to find out what the selected Dark Ages masterpiece is, you'll have to page to the end of the section.
2) The focus of the book seems to be on how the world influenced art rather than the other way around. The timeline aspect clearly suggests that various social and historical forces influenced the various styles of art being made, and there is very little evidence of a "reverse flow", of how the art being made "changed the world". Arguably, art really doesn't change the world much, but even if you utterly disagree with that sentiment, this book gives you very little ammo to prove otherwise. In any case, I view this as mild hyperbole, not really a demerit to what is a basic to intermediate level coffee table book full of nice pictures and factual snippets.
3) Not too much focus on "outlying" art, Pacific / MesoAmerican, art brut, etc. This may or may not trouble the individual reader. I personally liked the mainly Eurocentric focus, as 400 pages can only take you so far, so not an issue for me.
4) The writers / editors are all fairly obscure. No big name curators or well known historians, critics, etc. Most of the text appears to have been written by less than a half dozen Brits with minimal academic distinction. Not an issue for me, but again an MFA might be less pleased.
All in all, a nice book with which to delight curious children and visitors lingering round the coffee table. If you don't expect a collegiate text or graduate thesis on aesthetics, you will appreciate this work.
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