{"product_id":"the-story-of-art-9780714847030","title":"The Story of Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new, compact edition of the most popular art book ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'a book to slip into your pocket and dip into on a journey. It remains a delight to read.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Good Book Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'… beautifully designed'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Anyone looking for the most readable survey of the history of art from the [sic] cave paintings to the 20th century should buy the new, beautifully produced pocket edition of The Story of Art, still one of the great classics of art criticism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Phaidon, the book's publisher, has managed to give downsizing a good name by printing 'Story of Art' in a pocket edition…the pleasing proportions of this edition are a marvel of compactness.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There is something seductive about holding all of art history in one hand, and the designers have pulled it off.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Art and Auction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \/ Introduction - On art and artists \/ Strange Beginnings - Prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America \/ Art for Eternity - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete \/ The Great Awakening - Greece, seventh to fifth century BC \/ The Realm of Beauty - Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD \/ World Conquerors - Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD \/ A Parting of Ways - Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century \/ Looking Eastwards - Islam, China, second to thirteenth century \/ Western Art in the Melting Pot - Europe, sixth to eleventh century \/ The Church Militant - The twelfth century \/ The Church Triumphant - The thirteenth century \/ Courtiers and Burghers - The fourteenth century \/ The Conquest of Reality - The early fifteenth century \/ Tradition and Innovation I - The later fifteenth century in Italy \/ Tradition and Innovation II - The fifteenth century in the North \/ Harmony Attained - Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century \/ Light and Colour - Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century \/ The New Learning Spreads - Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century\/ A Crisis of Art - Europe, later sixteenth century \/ Vision and Visions - Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century \/ The Mirror of Nature - Holland, seventeenth century \/ Power and Glory I - Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries \/ Power and Glory II - France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries \/ The Age of Reason - England and France, eighteenth century \/ The Break in Tradition - England, America and France, late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries \/ Permanent Revolution - The nineteenth century \/ In Search of New Standards - The late nineteenth century\/ Experimental Art - The first half of the twentieth century \/ A Story Without End - The triumph of Modernism \/ Another turning of the tide \/ The changing past\/ A note on art books \/ Chronological charts \/ List of illustrations by location \/ Detailed list of illustrations \/ Index and glossary \/ Acknowledgements","brand":"Phaidon Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037280960855,"sku":"9780714847030","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780714847030.jpg?v=1750935131","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-story-of-art-9780714847030","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}