THE ART OF THE ETRUSCANS

by Shirley Glubok ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 30, 1967

What makes Etruscan art different from other art, why make a book about it? Youngsters, who presumably don't know, won't find out in these pages, the closest this series has come to a random assortment of artifacts. ""Etruscan art very often looks Greek;"" some of it is ""in the style of the period known as Archaic""--without explanation, statements like this are meaningless and sometimes misleading. Descriptions of painting frescoes, casting solid bronze figures, and firing pottery supply a little solid information, but most of the text is informal commentary on the plates--a little iconography here, a little interpretation there. This approach works all right when kids are clustered around the object; here, without any preparation and with an art as offbeat as the Etruscan, it may seem like a lot of loose talk about a lot of queer characters.

Pub Date: Aug. 30, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION