Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art (Adams 101)
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Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art (Adams 101) Details
About the Author Eric Grzymkowski is a writer and trivia buff who has written several books, including The United States of Strange, Attack of the Killer Facts!, The Quotable A**hole, and A Year of Living Sinfully. Read more
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Reviews
As someone who not only enjoys art, but has gone to school for it, I can't say I enjoyed this book at all. It's unorganized, scattered in a matter that has the reader jumping from timeline to timeline, biography to practical lesson, art period/movements to elements. It just doesn't work. I'm fully aware that the "101" series from AdamsMedia is organized in such a way that features colored pictures in the middle of the book, but that's exactly why "Art 101" should not have even been written. Art is exactly that, a visual representation. If not visual, it's auditory, and since this is a book, that sense is unrelated. There's no pictures. I know, I know, most readers are left to imagination, but are we really going to talk about color and only feature black and white hand drawn photos until a cluster page of tiny graphics in between page 128 and 129? Is that sensible? Honestly, out of all the "101" series, this is the one I'm mostly disappointed by. I adore books, and I adore owning them even more, but I do regret this purchase. I don't recommend buying, I would recommend checking out at a library, if anything.
