Reviews for Pen Lettering

The average rating for Pen Lettering based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-06 00:00:00 Neil McElroy The author gives a heads-up in the first paragraph of the Introduction that "...this is not an academic book." and that "...thus my book opens and closes with instance of how a failure to look at colour comprehensively has led to absurdities of theory, if not of practice." I'm not sure how you can look at color comprehensively to try and expose past problematic theories without an academic approach. And in an attempt to do so, this book seems sometimes unorganized, sometimes rambling on without a point, and sometimes too full of historic names, dates, people, and places without clear organization. This approach (the feeling that the human soul has been taken out of the color equation) isn't a new one. It's the same approach of Faber Birren in his two volumes Monument to Color and The Story of Color. Birren included some of the same information without what I felt was an overload of facts. The one section I did appreciate was the author's look at the rainbow as portrayed by artists through the ages including a nice selection of color reproductions. Still, it isn't enough to make this book a good addition to my library. I had buyer's remorse 10 minutes into this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-06 00:00:00 Seth Bowen ok read-some interesting parts