Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding by Julian Spalding

Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding by Julian Spalding

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A short, readable, original and compelling account of how and why societies evolved as they did over the last 35,000 years. And of the crucial, and changing, role of art and architecture in this evolution.

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Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding by Julian Spalding

Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.

Praise for The Art of Wonder: 'It does for art what Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time did for science - a thoroughly good read' Washington Daily News 'Written with a beautiful lucidity - ' A.C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper
JULIAN SPALDING'S books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize) and The Best Art You've Never Seen. He was formerly Director of Art Galleries in Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow (including the Burrell Collection and Kelvingrove) and established The Ruskin Gallery, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, the Open Museum and, as Master of Ruskin's Guild of St George, the Campaign for Drawing.
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ISBN 13 9781908524454
ISBN 10 1908524456
Title Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding
Author Julian Spalding
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bitter Lemon Press
Year published 2015-02-12
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.