The Visual Arts: A History by John Fleming

The Visual Arts: A History by John Fleming

Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most comprehensive history of art ever published in a single volume. Presenting art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, it offers and authoritative, balanced, and enlightened account, ranging from a statuette carved in central Europe some 30,000 years ago to digital, video, and installation art for 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 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 history Michael Archer has greatly expanded the authors' discussion of the art world over into the 21st century, providing a new perspective on the latest developments shaping our cultural history.

This insight, elegance, and fluency that the authors bring to their text are complemented by 1459 superb illustrations, many of which are now in color.

John Fleming was a British art historian known for his writing partnership with Hugh Honour. His book, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome, won the Bannister Fletcher Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medal. He lived with Honour in Italy for most of his life, and died in 2001.

Hugh Honour was a British art historian. He was elected in 1972 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature due to his fruitful career as a writer, often working with his life partner, John Fleming. He died in 2016.

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German and British scholar of the history of architecture. A dedicated cataloger of the architecture of Britain, he was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a fellow of the British Academy, as well as the recipient of a CBE and a knighthood. He died in 1983.

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ISBN 13	9781529432664
ISBN 10	1529432669
Title	The Visual Arts: A History
Author	John Fleming
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2023-08-22
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