Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art

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."

Comments

Hmm.

[Mister Transistor]

This is what great art has come to in our time: Michaelangelo's "Broken Link"

Reading the summary

[Rizimar]

Before I got halfway into the summary, I started to think that this was some kind of self-referential post-modern art book.

Re:Reading the summary

[kenj0418]

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.

Re:Global Visual Culture From Preshistory to 1800

[drkim]

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
(Please send me $180 if you click on it)

Thanks!