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The Ultimate Art Museum

The Ultimate Art Museum

Phaidon

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Experience a world-class art museum without leaving home through this virtual tour - a visually captivating exploration of art from around the world, designed with the help of a global team of experts and educators.

Explore human creativity over time without being confined by space or period. Discover reproductions from pre-historic times to the modern day, presented in organized wings, galleries, and rooms with educational summaries. This museum-in-a-book displays an incredible variety of mediums - from classic to cutting edge, such as paintings, sculptures, photographs, and textiles. It includes a fold-out map, floor plans, and interactive cross-referencing activities to provide a comprehensive look at the major works and movements in art history.

The Ultimate Art Museum was curated in partnership with the team behind Phaidon's critically acclaimed The Art Museum, praised by the New York Times, The Times, NPR, Vogue, and earning a starred Library Journal review. Each piece in the Museum was selected to showcase major historical, cultural, and creative milestones, imparting children with a comprehensive view of world art history and instilling the concept that art evolves over 40,000 years of collaboration, imagination, and ingenuity worldwide. With an expansive format and 300+ artworks from diverse styles, this book is the perfect companion for art enthusiasts of all ages.

 

  • Ideal for readers ages 8 to 12
  • Features a gatefold museum 'map' with floor plans for navigation, a timeline of art history, and a map of the world that highlights relevant centers of art
  • Perfect for classrooms, libraries, museums - and a must-own book for all art enthusiast parents

Product Details
  • Product Type: Book, Hardcover
  • 232 pages
  • Published in 2021
  • Shipping Dimensions: 12.0 × 9.8 × 0.9 inches  (30.5 × 24.9 × 2.3 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 3.8 lb (60.8 oz; 1724 g)
  • SKU: SKU010004920
  • ISBN: 9781838663780

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Ferren Gipson

About the Author

Ferren Gipson

Ferren Gipson is an art historian, writer, speaker, and educator. She is the host/writer/producer of the Art Matters podcast and doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London. She has worked with institutions such as Tate, BBC, Pinterest, Lomography, and Esquire Magazine, as an art and design content specialist. Ferren lives in London with her husband and 4-year-old son.

Phaidon

About the Publisher

Phaidon

Phaidon is the premier global publisher of the creative arts. We work with the world's most influential authors to produce innovative books on art, photography, design, architecture, fashion, food, and travel, and illustrated books for children. Phaidon has a long and distinguished history as an art-book publisher with over 1,500 titles in print.

Founded in Vienna in 1923, the founders of the company named it Phaidon in reference to Phaedo, a Greek philosopher and pupil of Socrates, to acknowledge their love of classical culture.

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