Sculpture of the World - A History (Art Ebook).pdf

Viking Press | 1968 | Pdf | Eng | 538 pages | 91.9 MB

It has long seemed an impossible dream to produce an adequate one-volume history of sculpture in pictures and words, from the caveman to today, including the Oriental, African, and Amerindian along with the Near Eastern and the more familiar Western development, at a price within the reach of the general reader.

Sheldon Cheney, after twenty-five years of seeking, has accomplished it in this book of more than 1100 photographs, with a running text and captions that give all the needed background of history, styles, techniques, schools, and
personalities. It will join his major A New World History of Art, first published thirty years ago, and its sequel. The Story of Modern Art, as one of the basic art books or the layman.