Helpful votes received on reviews:
62% (88 of 141)
Location: Cleveland, OH USA
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Misled by the title, I got this book to see if it had lessons in it from classical art pertaining to figure drawing. The volume has many lovely figure drawings; if that's all you're looking for, then you may be happy with it. If you are looking for instruction, look elsewhere. The written text is essentially made up of a brief history of figure drawing and several personal essays from artists who reveal nothing other than a) the fact that they teach, accompanied with vague descriptions of the topics they cover, b) how classical art may have influenced them, and c) that some of them have books to sell. I gave this book 2 stars because the drawings were nice.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
This review is on the actual set of DVD's, not the documentaries themselves, which are singularly excellent in encapsulating the philosophical, psychological, and political forces that have led to the current situation in the United States and Britain.
I don't think these DVD's are legally offered by the company that produced them, something not mentioned anywhere on their listing. The package design in not particularly professional, there are no markings as to what organization released the videos (i.e., the BBC), and the picture quality is substandard, as if these videos were created from the uploaded versions of these films that appear without copyright permission on the… Read more
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6 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
Imagine if a company made a film about why it was a good thing that fugitive American slaves were captured and whipped--something like The Birth of a Nation, with the KKK as heroes, but a film that advocated and depicted brutal violence against what history clearly shows were victims of oppression. Enter Black Death, a movie that takes all of the religious gobbledygook that served as reasons to torture and murder women accused of being witches in the Middle Ages and defends it with an absurd story that suggests (albeit as a fiction) that there WERE enclaves of evil witches who would torture and murder the servants of God--something for which there is absolutely no evidence in history… Read more
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