Art History for Dummies

by Jesse Bryant Wilder
Category: "Art/Photography"
Pages:397
Year of Publication:2007
Date Added:05/14/2009
Date Read:05/22/2009
Notes:A quick overview of the history of art from cave paintings to postmodern.
My Rating: 7

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Review - Art History for Dummies

This book did exactly what I wanted it to do — give me an introduction to the various styles of art and a beginning perspective on how to interpret and appreciate it. I wrote a couple posts on the blog, so I won't go into detail here. I would have rated it higher if all the paintings mentioned had been included in the book. Many of those that were, were just in black and white.
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