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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Objects of My Affection in Books

Jan 15, 2018

This was a really enjoyable book. It took a few chapters before I was really able to get in to it which is why it gets a 4 instead of a 5. It is not at all that it was boring, it just took me a few pages to get invested in the characters.
This book tells the story of Lucy, a personal organizer who is hired on to help clear out the home of Marva Meir Rios, a hoarding artist. Lucy son also happens to be in drug rehab which has forced her to sell her home & most of her possessions in order to be able to afford the program. The plot is a bit predictable...a reclusive, old, crabby artist; an amiable out to please everyone mother; a handsome younger man; a spurned lover. You get the drift. But the story itself was not always as predictiable as it sounds. Made for an interesting read & an intimate look into the characters' lives, losses, and realizations.

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Paige (428 KP) rated The Art Book in Books

Jul 28, 2017

The Art Book

Phaidon Editors | 2016 | Art, Photography & Fashion

10.0

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The best "jumping off point" for anyone interested (0 more)

Some of the pictures are less exemplary of the artist than one would hope. (0 more)

Great for beginners and fledgling art history buffs.

So this book has artist in alphabetical order, one per page. On each page, there is an example of their work and a small snippet of biography and explanation of the piece.

Simple idea, brilliant entrance to art for someone who doesn't know where to begin.

This helped me study it in a general way as a teen. I got familiar with some of what I liked. It made me comfortable with art in a lot of ways. It expanded my horizons and made me less intimidated by the vastness of all I had to learn.

There is a series of these- The 20th Century Art Book, The Photography Book, and The American Art Book (for some reason they changed the format on this particular one and made it sort of useless)