68. Title & Author: Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack (217 pages)
Genre: Nonfiction--Art History
Completed: 30 November 2008
Summary & Review:
Professor Cormack introduces the major trends and historical context of Byzantine and early Christian art. The book has six chapters tracing developments of this art from before the time of Constantine until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century and includes numerous illustrations.
Professor Cormack introduces the major trends and historical context of Byzantine and early Christian art. The book has six chapters tracing developments of this art from before the time of Constantine until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century and includes numerous illustrations.
While I really like the art of Byzantium and early Christianity, I didn't really enjoy this book. Several things contributed to this dislike, first of which was Cormack's organization of the book. He would jump from topic to topic with no clear organization and I would read dozens of pages without seeing his point. Also, the illustrations of the works he was talking about in the text were on completely different pages, often quite far from where they were discussed. It was enormously inconvenient to flip back and forth between the text and the image.
Ratings: 5.5
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