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Painting Today

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I've gotten through about half of Painting Today so far, and I'm terribly impressed. It's difficult to balance breadth with depth, but Godfrey succeeds at this quite well. Painting Today covers most of the relevant figures while weaving the right amount of detail and description into the text. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in understanding the scope of contemporary painting, as well as what the future holds for art.

An interesting collection of paintings, well printed, organized into useful categories. The text varies from being obscure to being useful, hopefully accurate. No great insights. I must confess that I am a beginner with little tolerance for art-speak. I gather that at this time it must be particularly difficult to look over the current painting scene and make much sense out of it much less write a history of the last twenty years. But the collection of paintings is definitely worth the effort to seek out this book. For me it was more interesting than "Vitamin P"

-First of all in my opinion, I think I did a good investment. The quality of the book is excellent, as is usual with books produced by Phaidon. It has lots of pictures and each one has an explanation of the work or the artist who created it. The selection of artists and works pleasantly surprised me. The way in which the author classified the issues can perhaps be seen as it was not the best, but to some extent helps to more easily find the type of image you might want to review at any time without having to go page by page. I see it more as an encyclopedia makes an overall reading of gender to the author that have been treated pictorially since 1970 until today. Occasionally tells certain stories or anecdotes that we do not always come to know (and can even be fun). It has no pretensions of being a book that focuses too much on theories of aesthetics. Does not follow a specific order (even in regard to follow a chronological order), but even this "apparent" disorder makes it hard to read. Personally I do believe that is the kind of books that deserve to be part of the collection. It's worth having it.

-En primer lugar en mi opinión, creo que hice una buena inversión. La calidad del libro es excelente, como es lo usual con los libros que produce Phaidon. Tiene gran cantidad imágenes y cada una tiene una explicación acerca de la obra o del artista que la creó. La selección de los artistas y de las obras me sorprendió gratamente. La forma en la que el autor clasificó los temas puede talvez percibirse como que no fue la más adecuada, pero hasta cierto punto ayuda a encontrar más fácilmente el tipo de imagen que podrías querer revisar en cualquier otro momento sin tener que ir página por página. Lo veo más como una enciclopedia que hace una lectura global de los géneros que a criterio del autor se han tratado pictóricamente desde 1970 hasta la actualidad. Ocasionalmente narra ciertas historias o anécdotas que no siempre nosotros llegamos a conocerlas (y que pueden ser inclusive entretenidas) . No tiene las pretensiones de ser un libro que se concentre demasiado en teorías sobre estética. No sigue un orden específico (ni siquiera en lo que respecta a seguir un orden cronológico), pero ni siquiera este "aparente" desorden lo vuelve complicado de leer. Personalmente yo sí creo que es ese tipo de libros que merecen ser parte de la colección. Vale la pena el tenerlo.

Considering that it came all the way from Sweden... this arrived several days earlier than initially stated. Thank you, Just in time for school to start.

The book arrived in superb condition, albeit it took a little longer than predicted.Painting Today[[ASIN:1861890745