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Title: Instant Art History: From Cave Art to Pop Art by Walter Robinson ISBN: 0-449-90698-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent resource for the novice!
Comment: my second six weeks of my first year teaching, my principal told me for the remainder of the year I will be teaching humanities. This book saved my life! It gave me the foundational knowledge to teach my middle schoolers about Art. I just wish there were the same for music, drama and dance! The book is a very pleasurable read. A must have for any reference shelf.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for beginners!
Comment: I have used this book for several years now. I have a degree in Art History and Art Education. I think this book is a great start for beginners or for those who just want to know a little more about art. I found the book very helpful for most of my high school students. As a matter of fact, two years ago I started using this book as a text book for the art History portion of our program. We use the book as a basis of study from which we delve into the historical events of the time. We then use these as a spring board. My students create projects to experience the different art of these eras. The book is written simply so that they can understand and throws in some humor here and there to keep it interesting. My only wish is that it came in a hard cover edition, as i have to keep replacing my copy I teach from!
Rating: 3
Summary: Robinson surely loved writing this ...
Comment: though the overall result is predictably sparse given what the title promises - so much history in so little space. It is written for a good cause - students in the sciences who really don't care that much about the subject yet are obligated to learn about it (virtually at gun point) in a big hurry and under pressure. (That's not to suggest that all science-oriented college students are numb to the humanities, but for those who are, this is a great book.)
It's the exam crammer's dream, written with humor and expertise much in the spirit of the British Bluffer's Guides. The book is especially useful for those who have long resisted art and art history because of their associations with snooty sorts and the pretentiousness of 'high culture.'
The three stars are for the general layout of the book and not so much about the writing itself. The illustrations are black and white, the paper cheap and pulpy, and some of the pages of my copy were cut unevenly at the printer's. These factors conspire to lessen the overall value of something that was deliberately conceived as a shortcut to college credit.
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Title: The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland, John Boswell ISBN: 0836280059 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books) by Peter Murray, Linda Murray ISBN: 0140513000 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Art: A Crash Course (Crash Course (Watson-Guptill)) by Julian Freeman ISBN: 0823002594 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History by Nancy Frazier ISBN: 0140514201 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Modern Art: A Crash Course (Crash Course (Watson-Guptill)) by Cory Bell ISBN: 0823009858 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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