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Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding Julian Spalding

Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding By Julian Spalding

Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding by Julian Spalding


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A short, readable, original and compelling account of how and why societies evolved as they did over the last 35,000 years. And of the crucial, and changing, role of art and architecture in this evolution.

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Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art by Julian Spalding

Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.

Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding Reviews

Praise for The Art of Wonder: 'It does for art what Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time did for science - a thoroughly good read.' Washington Daily News 'Written with a beautiful lucidity - ' A.C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper

About Julian Spalding

Julian Spalding was director, successively of Sheffield and Manchester Art Galleries, and latterly of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. He has written over a dozen books on art historical subjects and curated many exhibitions.

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GOR006607982
9781908524454
1908524456
Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art by Julian Spalding
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bitter Lemon Press
20150212
192
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