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(Re)Thinking “Art”: A Guide for Beginners reviewed by Robert Belton - December 05, 2008 Title: (Re)Thinking “Art”: A Guide for Beginners Author(s): Steve Shipps Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, New York ISBN: 1405155639, Pages: 172, Year: 2008 Search for book at Amazon.com Steve Shippss (Re)Thinking Art bills itself as a guide for beginners, but it reads as something much more than that. It is indeed a guide to beginners, but it does not shy away from providing a compelling, if brief, historical and philosophical meditation on what art is in the contemporary world. In that regard, the book is in the same category as Careys What Good Are the Arts, Dissanayakes What is Art For? or Thompsons The $12 Million Stuffed Sharknone of which could be described as a guide for beginners.1 However, it is presented for the most part in terms that would not be too difficult for beginning readers, and for pretty straightforward reasons. Shipps is an award-winning teacher, and it certainly seems that he wrote this book in the way that he teacheswith personality, humor, genuine consideration for the reader (conceived roughly as a young university student), and a... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robert Belton
University of British Columbia, Okanagan E-mail Author ROBERT BELTON, PhD is the Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
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