annieb123
Written on Jan 24, 2016
The writing is SO INCREDIBLY PEDANTIC that it often made me want to bang my head on my desk until I lost consciousness. Here's a quote at random. Now, I know most people are going to be thinking that I scoured the book trying to find a remotely obscure passage I could make fun of. That's not true... the entire books is made up of the following:
"Here we have various inflections, some spurious, some approving, of what amounts to a psychoanalytically inspired mythology of unconscious forum creation, evidence for which could be found both inside and beyond the conventional boundaries of art. It is a mythology, not because it is misleading but because it gives dramatic meaning to unknown energies that are manifest in pictorial form".
Grumpy old person additional comment: The electronic version doesn't have digital rights for ANY of the illustrations. This is a crippling deficiency in a book about (duh) visual media.