Content tagged with "art"
I absolutely loved this book. It explains the world of contemporary art – who buys it, how it sells, and why it becomes valuable. Lots of books seek to explain things like this, but they think they can do it through anecdotes and vignettes. The books spend each chapter focused on a person. They…
This is a fun book that celebrates the packaging and advertising art of the early Atari video games of the 80s. And this is important, because – let’s face it – those games sucked. The graphics were horrible and abstract, and what you were seeing on the screen had very little relation to…the dream….
This book tries to answer the question: will AI ever be able to emulate human creativity? It never really answers the question, but it’s still very, very interesting. Each chapter covers a different type of creativity: writing, music, art, etc. It’s full of examples and anecdotes about the advances…
I have no idea why I bought this – I think I just wanted to know how writing about art would be different than anything else. And it was quite good. It very much becomes a general book about writing, especially later in the book, but the early sections have a lot of examples about art writing and…
This a classic art coffee table book. It’s huge – 11 x 14, I think, and it weighs maybe 10 pounds? It’s the kind of book you set on your coffee table just to look at. But I “read” it. I put that verb in quotes because this isn’t really “readable,” in the classic sense. It had four major parts to…
I’ve become a little obsessed with the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist lately, after listening to the “Last Seen “podcast. This book is by the definitive reporter to cover the crime – he’s been reporting on it, on and off, for 25 years. Sadly, the book is scattered. It’s not a beginning-to-end…
This is more of an essay, than a book. It’s quite short. It reads a bit stream-of-consciousness, with no chapter headings. Each chapter seems to have a cultural theme, but I’d be lying if I told you they were perfectly clear. The author – Dan Fox, editor of a literary and art magazine – seems to be…
This is an odd book. John McPhee is a journalist. I read his book – Draft No. 4 – about writing . This is essentially an expansion of a long article McPhee did for The New Yorker. It tells the story of Norton Dodge, who was an economist and professor. He wrote his thesis in the 50s about tractor…
