A World History of Art

Since its first publication, this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. Presenting art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, it offers an authoritative, balanced and enlightening account, ranging from a statuette carved in central Europe some 30,000 years ago to the digital, video and installation art of the new millennium. The volume covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography. Textiles, coins, pottery, enamels, gold and silver are also included. The scope is international, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa and Oceania as well as Europe and the Americas.

This Revised Seventh Edition expands the original coverage by embracing new developments in archaeology and art historical research, and in particular contemporary art historian Michael Archer has greatly expanded the authors’ discussion of the art world over the past two decades, providing a new perspective on the latest developments shaping our cultural history.

The insight, elegance and fluency that the authors bring to their text are complemented by 1459 superb illustrations, many of which are now in colour. These images, together with the numerous maps and architectural plans, have been chosen to represent the most significant chronological, regional and individual styles of artistic expression.

Contents:

1. Before History
2. The Early Civilizations
3. Development Across the Continents
4. The Greeks and Their Neighbours
5. Hellenistic and Roman Art
6. Buddhism. Hinduism and the Arts of South and East Asia
7. Early Christian and Byzantine Art
8. Early Islamic Art
9. Medieval Christendom
10. The Fifteenth Century in Europe
11. The Sixteenth Century in Europe
12. The Americas, Africa and Asia
13. The Seventeenth Century in Europe
14. Enlightenment and Liberty
15. Romanticism to Realism
16. Eastern Traditions
17. Impressionism to Post-Impressionism
18. Indigenous Arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania
19. Art from 1900 to 1919
20. Between the Two World
21. Post-War to Post-Modern
22. Into the Third Millennium

About the Author:

John Fleming founded and edited with Hugh Honour the Pelican 'Style and Civilization' series. He died on 29 May 2001. Hugh Honour is one of the leading art historians of the 20th century. He is co-author with Nikolaus Pevsner and John Fleming of The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture.

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