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Title: Buy anything else. Skip this one. Please see the comments...
Review: This book was used as a text for a graduate class I took. The lecturer of my class was a student of Brettell's. I presume the relationship determined the choice of text, because this book is not a book to be chosen on merit. Editorial choices (including at least one image published upside down) do not help the author's lack of brilliance (to be kind). Buy anything else. Only if you have a 300-tome collection of books on modern art should you even consider this book--and then I know you'll want to use it to light your fireplace.My comments are seriously given to those folks who buy books for their personal libraries...
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