{"product_id":"john-paul-stonard-creation-art-since-the-beginning-book","title":"Creation: Art Since The Beginning by John-Paul Stonard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLITERARY REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Story of Art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCOUNTRY LIFE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e_____________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecivilisation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifty thousand years ago on an island in Indonesia, an early human used red ochre pigment to capture the likeness of a pig on a limestone cave wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround the same time in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from a fire and sketched four galloping horses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIt was like a light turning on in the human mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to understand the world around them, and to thrive. Now, art historian John-Paul Stonard has travelled across continents to take us on a panoramic journey through the history of art - from ancient Anatolian standing stones to a Qing Dynasty ink handscroll, from a drawing by a Kiowa artist on America's Great Plains to a post-independence Congolese painting and on to Rachel Whiteread's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly illustrated throughout, with a mixture of black and white and full colour images, Stonard's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCreation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an ambitious, thrilling and landmark work that leads us from Benin to Belgium, China to Constantinople, Mexico to Mesopotamia. Journeying from pre-history to the present day, it explores the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse, and asks how - and why - we create. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAuthor: John-Paul Stonard\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Creation: Art Since the Beginning\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: 14 October 2021\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 25.4 × 20 x 4cm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 464\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-1-408879-68-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Brown Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53962412360019,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1065\/7434\/8627\/files\/Artboard17.jpg?v=1781022689","url":"https:\/\/the-brown-collection-shop.co.uk\/products\/john-paul-stonard-creation-art-since-the-beginning-book","provider":"The Brown Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}