The Art History of the World
Part 1
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The Mediterranean Sea was an area that attracted many famous cultures that influenced and competed with each other. Here, an idea would spread quickly from place to place. The Sumerians, who lived in Mesopotamia or present-day Iraq, were the first people in the world to build in a large scale, and they invented writing in 3,300BC. They made figurines whose eerie eyes are filled with trust and who seem to look beyond our world to the gods'. These faces so enchanted their conquerors that one can see a Sumerian echo in the art that followed for thousands of years.
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About the Book
The Art History of the World, part 1 is a picture book illustrated by the author which gives a brief and somewhat whimsical overview of the art of the Mediterranean including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece plus that of the Indus Culture, Persia and China. It is not intended to fully explain these developments but to give children, and perhaps adults a taste for art history.
About the Author
Sibyl Haynes studied art at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and received a BFA in painting in 1989. She has continued painting and drawing since that time and prepared the major part of the Art History of the World manuscript ten years ago while she was pregnant with her son, Kai, although it has been considerably revised since then. She has a loose but focused view of art history and believes that children have not been sufficiently exposed to ancient, or any, art. She believes that it is important for some children to learn about art since it might become their calling- just as she herself was exposed in fourth grade by a memorable teacher to most of the art covered in this picture book.