Customer Ratings:

• dissapointed. I ordered this book and received it, but the colour plates were missing. I contacted the company but they just refunded the money. I didn t want this, I wanted the book complete! They didn t want the book returned, so I have an art book without the relevant pictures!!!
• A terse introduction to the stated subject. My interest in this book derived from my interest in photography, and the conviction that study of paintings can teach us about photography as well. Elements that make a painting interesting, beautiful, moving, important, I believe can mostly do the same to a photograph.

  I found in the book an exposure of those elements, provided with a terse, clear language, illustrated with reference to works therein reproduced. There is some jargon, made accessible, but not the show-off of complicated language that I found in other writings about art.

  I believe this book can help look at paintings and appreciate them, more than to speak about them.

  I also found it gives a fresh alternative to the usual approach of looking at art in a chronological way, going by century, slicing instead the same subject in a different way.

• easy reader. If you are just wanting a quick and informative view of the art world this could be the book for you. We all think we know somethink about art, however Mary Acton points us in the right direction so that we cannot only understand a painting but we can sound like we know what we are talking about. A must have book for any budding art critic.

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