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Title: Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by Michael Baxandall ISBN: 0-19-282144-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not A good Read!!!
Comment: This book is what I would call hard to read, unless of course you already have a masters degree in Florentine art. As a student in an art history class that required this as one of our reads, I can say this book is crap, yes I mean crap. I have read many more well written books covering this subject in an easier to read format. I would defiantly not recommend this overpriced piece of firewood.
Rating: 3
Summary: Splitting Attractive Hairs
Comment: This is the kind of book that History of Art departments throw at you early on in their courses to instil the right respect and awe for the whole academic ritual. When I first saw this book I was duly impressed and intimidated into thinking this was somehow a classic. In this work Baxandall is the exemplary academic, slowly building up a case from painstaking research and cleverly interpreted trivia. This approach is fine and dandy until you reflect that at the end of it the conclusions Baxandall has laboured so hard to arrive at are perhaps a little banal -- i.e. Renaissance painting was influenced by such contemporary phenomenon as religious practices, dancing, and (oddly) the ability to judge quantities by eye. The reason this book works is that the Renaissance is such an attractive period that Baxandall's painstakingly dull technique receives a charming counterpoint in the endearing trivia of the period. Unfortunately this effect is not replicated in other works by Baxandall that I have looked at. To college students getting a dose of this, I would say, 'Enjoy the period, but think about how relevant this kind of hairsplitting really is.'
Rating: 1
Summary: terrible!!
Comment: ... this book was tedious. there are very few books that make me say, "i'd rather be working!"
you have to have a really high tolerance for italian art, or even art in general. a passing interest simply will not allow for an enjoyable read.
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Title: The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella, Giorgi Vasari ISBN: 019283410X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: On Painting (Penguin Classics) by Leon Battista Alberti, Cecil Grayson, Martin Kemp ISBN: 0140433317 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art by A. Richard Turner, Richard A. Turner ISBN: 0131833537 Publisher: Prentice Hall Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Art in Renaissance Italy, Second Edition by Gary M. Radke, John T. Paoletti ISBN: 0810913909 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: Slipcased by Frederick Hartt, David G. Wilkins ISBN: 0131832514 Publisher: Prentice Hall Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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