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Title: Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza : A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art by Nancy G. Heller ISBN: 0-691-09052-1 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Good Introduction To Modernism and Postmodernism
Comment: This book is engagingly written, a "quick read" and, surprisingly for art history or criticism, has some great quotes from artists in it which give another insight into the art as well. The author has a passion for modern art, and the skill to make her passion understood. Highly recommended. Also has some lovely color reproductions to contemplate.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you have trouble breathing in museums
Comment: I was loaned this book to read by an educational director at a contemporary art museum. The book itself --- at least its hardcover edition --- is a lovely well-bound and glossy book, the pages are very sturdy and many of the reproductions are in color. I read the book in less than a day. It is short and easy to read. Heller makes the book, more personal in her address to the reader than other introductory guides, she lines each chapter with her own experiences, which seem more honest than most. When I read the book the reading was so easy, the advice was so simple, the process so quick and enjoyable, that I thought I had spent a few entertaining hours doing absolutely nothing. The book is more about, as the title says, understanding and enjoying modern art, than it is a guide to the different movements or artists within modern art, but the artists she does speak of have a tendency to stay with you (as I didn't think they would). A couple of weeks ago I went to a local museum exhibit and happened upon the work of Jenny Holzer, and smiled, remembering where I first read about her.
Rating: 5
Summary: Modern Art: Finally, an English translation
Comment: So much of what I have read about modern art goes in one ear and out the other. I think this is because writers feel obligated to impart a certain body of knowledge to the reader. Nancy Heller, however, starts with the questions people have about modern art and then proceeds to answer them. She even concludes the book with a chapter of answers to questions most asked about modern art.
If you are planning to read your first book about modern art, this is the one. If you are planning to read your very LAST book about modern art, this too is the one.
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Title: But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory by Cynthia Freeland ISBN: 0192853678 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Art on the Edge and Over:Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s by Linda Weintraub, Arthur Danto, Thomas McEvilley ISBN: 0965198812 Publisher: Art Insights Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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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: Paul Nash by David Boyd Haycock ISBN: 1854374362 Publisher: Tate Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Getting It: A Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art by Becky Hendrick, Cyndi Eller Eller, Cyndi Eller ISBN: 0618066713 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.96 |
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