Reviews for Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History: v. 2

The average rating for Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History: v. 2 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-08 00:00:00 Louis Roberts A pretty good textbook. I read on screens badly so opted for the paperback version -- terrible choice on my part. Biiiig floppy book, tiny pictures. (But at least all in color.) Ebook version probably superior in several ways. Kleiner's commentary didn't make me want to fight him most of the time, and the art included was more diverse than I expected. That isn't to say it actually *was* diverse; most of what's covered is extremely Western, for better or worse. Still, a decent overview of Western art, at least, from the 1500s through modern era. If this particular art history class had actually been taught by a professor instead of...whatever verb my class's professor was instigating (monitoring?), I might've really enjoyed the textbook (and course) as a jumping off point. Ah well.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-19 00:00:00 Brad Lott I enjoy reading about Art History, but I don't enjoy reading textbooks. This is a textbook. Regardless, I was happy with it until it gets into the last hundred years of art history and then much of the featured art is crap. Hardly art. Love reading about Da Vinci and Van Gogh.