• Hailed as the most up to date and wide ranging history of art ever published in a single volume
• Presenting art history as an essential part of the development of humankind
• Offers an authoritative, balanced and enlightening account, from a statuette in central Europe 30000 years ago to the digital installation art of the present
• Covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography
• Textiles, coins, pottery, enamels, gold and silver are also included
• 1459 superb illustrations, many of which are in colour
• Images, numerous maps and architectural plans chosen to represent the most significant chronological, regional and individual styles of artistic expression

• Preface
• Introduction
• Before History
• The Early Civilizations
• Development Across the Continents
• The Greeks and Their Neighbours
• Hellenistic and Roman Art
• Buddhism. Hinduism and the Arts of South and East Asia
• Early Christian and Byzantine Art
• Early Islamic Art
• Medieval Christendom
• The Fifteenth Century in Europe
• The Sixteenth Century in Europe
• The Americas, Africa and Asia
• The Seventeenth Century in Europe
• Enlightenment and Liberty
• Romanticism to Realism
• Eastern Traditions
• Impressionism to Post-Impressionism
• Indigenous Arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania
• Art from 1900 to 1919
• Between the Two World
• Post-War to Post-Modern
• Into the Third Millennium

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