{"product_id":"creation-2","title":"Creation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness'' \u003ci\u003eLITERARY REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich''s fabled \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Art\u003c\/i\u003e'' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful'' \u003ci\u003eCOUNTRY LIFE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecivilisation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind’s creative impulse.\u003c\/b\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\u003cb\u003eIt was like a light turning on in the human mind.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eHouse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly illustrated throughout, with a mixture of black and white and full colour images, Stonard''s \u003ci\u003eCreation\u003c\/i\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\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315020964222,"sku":"NW9781408879689","price":23.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781408879689.jpg?v=1778688195","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/creation-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}