A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works

An exciting new critical voice explores what makes art great through an illuminating analysis of the world’s artistic masterpieces, now in paperback.

From a carved mammoth tusk (c. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (1505–1510) to Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon of astonishing imagery has imprinted itself onto the cultural consciousness of the past forty thousand years.

Author Kelly Grovier devotes himself to illuminating these and more than fifty other seminal ...