Non-Western Art: A Brief Guide

by Lynn MacKenzie

Book Overview

This book offers a concise, useful introduction to the indigenous visual expressions created in the Americas, Africa and Asia. It emphasizes the idea that Non-Western cultures have history, that known... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0139000364
• ISBN13: 9780139000362
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good overview

While this book doesn't go in too much depth, it covers a ton of different cultures' artforms. It is enough for the non-art person to understand but still satisfy a passionate art lover (at least in my case). I bought the book to study for the NYSTCE CSTs in visual arts and I thought it was helpful in that regard. It covered a lot of areas in a short amount of time and gave me an understanding those non-western cultures.

easy reading

I thought this book was a great text book. The chapters were orgaized well and so was the information in them. I also thought that the information was easy to follow. One suggestion, the chapter numbers on each page were very hard to read becasue they were almost stuck in the binding of the book, I would suggest puting them on the bottom or top right hand and left hand corners.