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What a shame this gem is out of print,
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This review is from: Famous Paintings: An Introduction to Art for Young People (Hardcover)
Like the previous reviewer I was given this book as a child and I perused it with absorption and pleasure over and over. The reproductions are excellent, the art is first rate, varied, and chosen to appeal to a child. The text is minimal but interesting and child friendly. I remember even liking the book's smell. I credit my present enjoyment of art and my well developed eye to this book as much as to any art class I've taken since and I look forward to sharing it with my grand daughter. I can still see Hogarth's Shrimp Girl, Marc's Red Horses, and Holbein's Prince Edward (seen on the cover) and many others as I saw them once upon a time through the eyes of a nine year old. I hope some publisher will decide to reissue this, perhaps with some new paintings to bring it up to date for the 21st century.
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Every Child should learn art with this book!,
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This review is from: Famous Paintings: An Introduction to Art for Young People (Hardcover)
This book is a classic - a long, long time ago (when I was a child) I was introduced to art by memorizing the paintings in this book, and have never forgotten any of them. What a gift for a young person! A MUST!
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An Extraordinarily Beautiful and Intelligent Introduction to Art for Children,
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This review is from: Famous Paintings: An Introduction to Art for Young People (Hardcover)
I received this book shortly after my fifth birthday at the age of five from my parents for Christmas in 1959. I personally credit this book with being a major influence in my development as an artist, and indeed, its influence was so profound that a select number of images first seen in that book--scenes from the ancient Assyrian Lion Hunts of Nineveh--resulted in a monumental work of mine, "The Killing of Lions; An Iraqi War Meditation", now in the collection of the Emir of Qatar.How many books on art published today for young people, I wonder, would include these underappreciated works of genius? I still have this magnificent book, worn and frayed through countless years of loving handling. I occasionally open it to marvel at the aesthetic vision that inspired its production and publication--and to return to a young-old place within myself that was first awakened by its pages, and deeply and continuously nourished for many years thereafter. I recommend this book to all parents who hope to awaken a similar place within the hearts and minds of their children.
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