A Brief History of Painting: 2000 BC to AD 2000

By Roy Bolton

Painting moves out of the soft glow of the gallery into the fresh, sometimes revisionary light of the twenty-first century in this authoritative and engaging history of art from ancient days to modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786713887
• ISBN13: 9780786713882
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview

This is an excellent overview of the history of painting, engagingly written and fairly accessible. My only complaint is that the reproductions of the works of art are in many cases too small to see any details. A great book for those wishing to understand the major developments and history of painting.

Excellent book, well illustrated and well done

An excellent summary of each of over 250 artists, each with one representative example of his/her art. Illustrations are high quality and well described, with an informative thumbnail biography of each artist. This is a small-format book, well suited to survey-class student use as a reference. A previous reviewer seems to have had an axe to grind with coverage of female modern artists. This is perhaps a justifiable comment since 25% of the book's pages are dedicated to post-1900 works that are esoteric to the point of incommunicability, and females have probably had as much of a hand in this nefarious endeavor as men... .

BEAUTIFUL

this book is great. perfect. easy to understand, and beautiful. every left page has the history of the artist, and the right page has a familiar famous painting of theirs. there is also a timeline. If you are interested in art, get this book.