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Title: a good, easy, broad introduction
Review: Before I read this book I knew less about art than perhaps any human alive. Now, having read the book, I know slightly more than less than any human alive. It's an easy, fun, broad introduction to art. It suffers terribly from insufficient illustrations (what do you want for the low price?) and the color prints are in isolated sections that are not well keyed to the text which means you spend a fair amount of time looking for the piece in question. All said there is good information from a reliable source for someone just "walking in the door", so to speak.From here the next two books are the much more thorough and pricier books: "History of Art: Slipcased" (sixth edition) by Jansen and, for art appreciation, "Living With Art" (fifth edition) by Rita Gilbert. They are the standards in their respective fields. These two and, of course trips to your local museum.
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