30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity across Time and Space

Author: Phaidon Editors

Format: Hardcover | 640 pages

Dimensions: 18.8 x 1.91 x 18.92 cm

Publication date: 1 Oct. 2025

‘A celebration of art-making.’ – Wall Street Journal

An accessible, comprehensive celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today, now available in a gift-friendly mini format

Phaidon’s groundbreaking book presents art differently from all other compendia by revealing the huge diversity – or in many cases, the similarity – of artistic achievements around the globe.

Images of more than 600 works from all periods and regions are arranged in chronological order, each with a short text that puts the work in critical context and explains its contribution to the development of art history.