A review by susieliston
Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Master Painters and Sculptors by Elizabeth Lunday

4.0

This book looks like it would be rather salacious, in a Hollywood Babylon sort of way, it's not. I bought it quite awhile ago when I first decided to seriously improve my art knowledge, but it got pushed by the wayside. When I recently came upon it, I almost didn't bother reading it at all, it is a series of short chapters on major artists of the western world. I know all this stuff, now, right? But I gave it a try, and it was very good. It was written well, never dry, a lot of the information I did know, but I also learned a lot. I would certainly recommend this to anyone just starting to study art. One caveat, there are only comic book style cartoons as illustrations, no photos or reproductions, so have the Internet standing by if you aren't familiar with the artworks in question.