Arts in Civilisation by Jack A. Hobbs & Robert L. Duncan

Arts in Civilisation (Illustrated Survey of the Arts in Dust Jacket)

A Illustrated Survey of Literature, Art, Architecture and Music from Prehistoric Cultures to the Twentieth Century

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Arts in Civilisation: Pre-historic culture to the twentieth century
• Authors: Jack A. Hobbs & Robert L. Duncan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Books, London
• Publication Date: 1991
• ISBN-13: 9781854710666
• ISBN-10: 1854710664
• Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth-covered boards with a printed, illustrated dust jacket
• Physical Format: Large illustrated quarto-size volume with maps and colour illustrations. 559 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: The dark green/black cloth boards are clean and square, with one small scuffed or rubbed patch on the front board near the lower left. Corners are sound. The fore-edge and page edges are tanned.
• Interior: The text block is tight and clean, with no markings seen on the pages examined. The page edges are toned and yellowed with age. Maps and colour illustrations are present.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The illustrated jacket, showing a detail of a Renaissance fresco, has chipping and small tears at the spine head, light soiling and marks to the back, and some rubbing to the edges. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Arts in Civilisation, subtitled Pre-historic culture to the twentieth century, is a wide-ranging survey of Western civilisation told through its literature, visual art, architecture and music. Published in London by Bloomsbury Books, it follows writers, artists and composers from the ancient world to the modern age.

The book is arranged by period and movement, setting each art form in its cultural context rather than treating it in isolation. Coloured periodic charts set politics, literature, philosophy, the visual arts, architecture and music side by side, so the reader can see what was happening across the arts at any given time.

A substantial, richly illustrated volume with maps and colour plates, it suits the general reader, the student of the humanities and the collector of large illustrated reference books on art and culture.

Author Profile: Jack A. Hobbs

Jack A. Hobbs was Professor of Art at Illinois State University, where he taught art education from 1970 until his retirement in 1993. He co-authored five textbooks on art or the humanities and exhibited his paintings and prints early in his career.

Among his other titles are The Visual Experience (1990) and Art in Context.

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