Reviews for Five Star: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of History, Legends, and Instruction from the Natio...

The average rating for Five Star: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of History, Legends, and Instruction from the Natio... based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-05-21 00:00:00 Robert Martin A good introductory primer on the history of visual arts. The edition I have was printed in 1970, so Pablo Picasso and Frank Lloyd Wright are considered "new horizons". You also have to take the time into consideration here. Mostly white dudes, no women. Very little perspective outside western culture. You want a more global perspective? Get a more current book. But what is here, is well written and easy to understand for a beginner or someone who wants to brush up before a museum visit.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-19 00:00:00 Shane Sanders The blurb here says it is non-technical and while true that still requires a great deal of initial definition of terms. A good thing in that it taught me some things. This has a 'structuralist' approach in that it builds on verifiable data while you get all the reasons for inclusion of this or that piece and thereby how it effects the view of this or that model etc. But if one looks for answers here you're not likely to find them. Koester can verify historically that the first non-Jewish Christians for example were probably found in Antioch. That the first kind of Christian gatherings for worship were (also) probably dinner feasts. And this for a long time until probably Polycarp's time when people started going to places he had visited to view letters of his and other Christian writings. Before this very little is known with any certainty. So disappointing that way. As a read it is pure academic sifting and re-sifting of data. Sadly not a detective's crime novel. More like an expert forensic autopsy report. But I'm of the opinion that the more numerous the perspectives we can grasp the clearer our eventual understanding.