The artless art history book
September 18 2012
Picture: Brent Ashley
This is great - art historian Hope Walker alerts me to a story in Canada about an art history book with no pictures. And it costs CAN$180.
Art history teachers at OCAD University decided that students on their Global Visual and Material Culture course needed a bespoke copy of a book called 'Art History' by Stokstad and Cothren, a book which is in its 4th edition, and easily available on Amazon with illustrations for $150. But the University could only afford a version of the book with no images, as seen above. So students had to buy the book for $180, then refer to other sources to see the illustrations. Genius! More here and here.
Update - the Association of Art Historians tells me:
The online version of our journal occasionally has to run articles with no pics as (c) owners won't license for online use!
AHN says - boo to the copyright dictators.
