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101 Things To Learn In Art School (2011)

by Kit White(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0262016214 (ISBN13: 9780262016216)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

MIT Press (MA)

review 1: Each page is sharp and interesting, but too many topics too quickly defined and then dismissed makes for a terrifically tiresome book if read from cover to cover. It's like reading the dictionary: while I enjoy reading from the dictionary (practically every day I'm off to check out a word or phrase!), I wouldn't sit down with it to commence reading from beginning to end. Same with this here bookie--it'd work better as an "idea" book: pick it up, flip to any page and, if it strikes your bliss, use that page as a send off point for further research.
review 2: Missed out on art school because you thought law school seemed less flaky? Well, now you, too, can learn whatever it is art students learn, without ever paying tuition or lugging around a comically large por... moretfolio!I read this little book while my kids played with a ginormous puzzle in the public library (why does it have to rain the second day of summer vacation?). I pulled it off the shelf because I have a soft spot for small books that tend to get lost on shelves. It was rubberized on the outside, not sure why. I thought the insides would explain that, but did not -- at least, not to me.101 things! That's it! I did learn things. I learned a few new words: "chiaroscuro" is "the dramatic contrast of dark and light in an image" (think Rembrandt). Some sounded more like "101 things an art professor wishes his students would do because they are driving him crazy." Some are very useful for anyone, artist or not -- #63, "Learn to speak about your work," for example.The pictures are copies of famousish art by others, drawn by the author. Were the originals not included due to copyright? Maybe that's #102 -- learn copyright law. Maybe law school isn't so useless after all. less

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