A History of Art - A Survey of the Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day

Inbunden bok. Thames and Hudson. 1968. 572 sidor.

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"This is a thoroughly up-to-date history of art that is not only comprehensive and scholarly, but unpretentious in language and eminently readable.

In words and pictures, Professor Janson guides the reader through the history of painting, architecture and sculpture from the earliest examples of some 20,000 years ago down to the highly sophisticated works of today—from primitive markings on rocks and stones to abstract expressionism, from cave dwellings to glass and pre-stressed concrete structures, from palaeolothic figurines to mobiles and ‘assembled’ sculptures.

Throughout his account the author has taken care to emphasise the social, political and religious backgrounds which brought about the different art-forms, to explain how and why they came into being at a particular time and place and to analyse how certain individuals, who were not afraid to experiment outside the accepted traditions and apply scientific discoveries to the arts, radically altered the course of progress.

The text is supported by nearly 1,000 reproductions in colour and black-and-white."