Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art 371
Dr Herbert West writes "Students at Ontario College of Art and Design were forced to buy a $180 textbook filled with blank squares. Instead of images of paintings and sculpture throughout history (that presumably would fall under fair-use) the textbook for 'Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800' features placeholders with a link to an online image. A letter from the school's dean stated that had they decided to clear all the images for copyright to print, the book would have cost a whopping $800. The screengrabs are pretty hilarious, or depressing, depending on your point of view."
Hmm. (Score:5, Funny)
This is what great art has come to in our time: Michaelangelo's "Broken Link"
Reading the summary (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reading the summary (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they are teaching the Art History majors their most important lesson "You have wasted your money."
Normally it takes them 4 years of college and then a year or more working at Starbucks to learn that.
First Edition! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Global Visual Culture From Preshistory to 1800 (Score:5, Funny)
Have you guys seen the new art history book I wrote?
It's waaaaaay better than that Canadian book. I've embedded the pictures right in the book:
A Brief History Of Art [google.com]
(Please send me $180 if you click on it)
Thanks!
Sure, here you are, with a $20 tip. (Score:5, Funny)
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_374/12368051426X3544.jpg [dreamstime.com]
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_374/12368051426X3544.jpg [dreamstime.com]
Re:Global Visual Culture From Preshistory to 1800 (Score:4, Funny)
"A professor I knew who taught anatomy at the local medical school said they were using Grey's anatomy texts."
Hardly. They would use the book from Henry Gray and not a script from a bad TV show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray's_Anatomy [wikipedia.org]