"The Journey of Art" Author: [UK] Aaron Rosen / [UK] Lucy Dalzell Publisher: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

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Thirty art sites, 119 classic works

Full-color hand-painted civilization scenes, starting a journey of art across time and space

🗺Editor's Recommendation

◎A time and space journey through the world of art.

Starting from Navarra Gabaman in Australia 37,000 years ago, we will follow the clues of time and gradually reach Thebes and Nineveh more than a thousand years BC, to Athens and Rome around BC, passing through Florence, London, Paris, Vienna, and finally arriving in Rio de Janeiro in 2020. While traveling around the world, we will have an overview of the development trajectory of global art.

◎ Thirty fully-colored hand-painted civilized cities, an immersive experience of the birth of art.

Illustrator Lucy Dalzell hand-painted the representative landscapes of 30 art sites with delicate and varied brushstrokes, allowing you to directly experience the different styles of various civilizations through the pictures. The landscapes are dotted with clippings of artworks, reproducing art in the civilized landscapes and allowing the works to bloom with new life where they were born.

◎ Hundreds of real photos of classic works, one book to understand global art.

The author and many researchers have selected hundreds of classic works from tens of thousands of years of art history around the world, and formed a rich and three-dimensional art history through real photos of the works, real scenes of the artists' creation and important knowledge introductions, allowing you to get to know the artists through their works and understand the civilization behind them through their artistic characteristics.

◎It can be read, felt, visited and expanded.

The artwork unfolds in the text and hand-painted city scrolls, and further extends its boundaries in the artist's story and the history of the times. Reading this book, step into the world of art and open up more dimensions of life experience.

🗺Media Recommendation

Aaron Rosen uses art as a starting point for history, leading readers on a magnificent journey through the history of civilization. Every four pages is a chapter, introducing the political and cultural background that influenced the development of art, and supporting the text with city landscape drawings drawn with colored pencils, copies of the original works, and photo clippings. Its cultural vision is very broad, and the cities are impressive. There is a lot of content here that can arouse readers' curiosity and inspire further exploration. ——"Book List"

Spanning continents and eras, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to world culture through art. Maps, illustrations, and photographs bring the text to life, and photographs of artworks are interspersed with the illustrators' colorful sketches of representative landscapes of various cultures. This book is a refreshing departure from Eurocentric works of art history. After reading this book, readers will have a broader understanding of human history. -School Library Journal

From 37,000-year-old rock paintings to modern murals and architecture, this book takes a global tour around the best of human culture. It has a very broad perspective and is not Eurocentric. - Kirkus Reviews

🗺Content Introduction

"The Journey of Art" is a picture book suitable for beginners of art. It features a time-space journey through the world of art, leading readers from the 37,000-year-old cave paintings of Navarra Ghabaman, through 37,000 years of history, to visit 30 famous cities of art and culture, including Rome, Egypt, Angkor, Hedeby, Timbuktu, Beijing, Edo, Amsterdam, New York, London, Paris, Vienna, and Rio de Janeiro. It introduces the historical origins of these cities in easy-to-understand text, presents the civilized landscape of the cities with exquisite and large hand-painted images, and intersperses the most representative pictures of art works and knowledge introductions from various places, which is highly readable and interesting.