A Short Book About Art

The most compelling short exploration of the visual arts that I have read since John Berger's Ways of Seeing. -- Edward Dimendberg A wonderful introduction to art: precise, accessible and informative. The reader is expertly conducted through the major approaches to the making and understanding of art across the world. -- David Peters Corbett A highly readable introduction to art, drawing on a deep historical sensibility, engaged by the voices of the artists as well as the aesthetic criteria involved in making and looking at art. No other introduction to art addresses these basic aspects of viewing so pertinent to the age of the image. -- Catherine M. Soussloff