Customer Ratings:

• A Very Useful read. A very personal transaction, which was greatly appreciated.
  The book I have purchased has proved very useful for my upcoming University study in History of Art.
  As I have never studied it prior to this purchase, it has proved a very good start to the subject, with some very interesting facts and arguments to get your teeth into!
  Thoroughly pleased.
• A stimulating read for all. By contrast with all reviewers, I would argue Pointon s book about the discipline of art history can provide a stimulating reading for all, both specialists and non-specialists, high school pupils, university and students and academics.
  
  Supportive arguments for this point are as follows:
  - it is widely accessible by the way it goes into the most recurrent questions of art history with material everybody has already encountered at some point,
  - it is not simplistic as it goes further than common sense and can be very specific in the way it tackles specific questions of methods or ideological stand within the disciplinary discourse,
  - it is a good read for advanced practitioners as it could provide food for thought to anybody who has a reflexive approach to their art historical research.
  
  On a practical side, this book has for itself to be very short, therefore quick to read through.
• A good A level textbook. This book covers all the essential core syllabus that you need to cover for AQA A Level History of Art, and essentially it is a textbook for the course. As an A level textbook, it does it s job. It is written for 16-18 year old school kids in Britain who are taking art history and this book should not be considered for any further study or in-depth critique about art.

  You will not be happy with this book if you are a university student, and if you want a more detailed study of Art History, buy The Story of Art by Gombrich, a text which every self-respecting art history student will own.

  For a beginners introduction, this is quite good and comprehensive (in a very superficial way), and if you want to add to an interest in art history, even as a novice, this is rather light as a lot of it is rather obvious and self-explanatory.

  A level students: Buy it today. Others: stay away.

• interesting for beginners. This is a book for those beginning to study History of Art, but it could have more clues to practices and methods. Anyway it can only be good for someone beginning from scratch and it focus mostly on UK.

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