Laura Newton
Auteur de Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf
Œuvres de Laura Newton
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf (2004) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 26
- Popularité
- #495,361
- Évaluation
- 2.8
- Critiques
- 2
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- 4
The book includes about 110 illustrations of the artists' work, almost but not all in colour, in addition there are a number of period monochrome photographs. The period photographs are all quite small, and the reproduced paintings vary in size from very small to full page, with many in between. The pictures run with the text, and are notated in the latter, but the captions to the pictures do not give the dimension of the work, and often not the date.
This is primarily and illustrated text book, and as such I would question the wisdom of setting it in a sans face, rarely does a sans face work well for text as this book proves. A more sensible choice of a serif font would have made for more comfortable reading, dispensed with the need for the wide the line spacing and freed up more space on the page for larger pictures. The quality of reproduction is also in question, the colour is flat with the dark areas of the paintings lacking detail. For a book on the visual arts these are obvious shortcomings.… (plus d'informations)