{"product_id":"creation-by-john-paul-stonard-9781408879689","title":"Creation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Art\u003c\/em\u003e' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful' \u003ci\u003eCOUNTRY LIFE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind’s creative impulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround the same time in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from a fire and sketched four galloping horses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was like a light turning on in the human mind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eHouse\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly illustrated throughout, with a mixture of black and white and full colour images, Stonard's \u003cem\u003eCreation\u003c\/em\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46349626441964,"sku":"9781408879689","price":59.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16907583482689.jpg?v=1744164518","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/creation-by-john-paul-stonard-9781408879689","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}