Salon.com > Art History http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 An art history book, minus the art http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/an_art_history_book_minus_the_art/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/an_art_history_book_minus_the_art/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13016468 Hyperallergic What is this, October!? According to a blog post published by a disgruntled parent of a student, the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) is forcing students to buy an art history book for $180 — which wouldn’t be unheard of, but the catch is that the publishers of this book didn’t get any of the image rights for the artwork it includes. To reiterate, that’s an art history survey without any pictures.

Instead of having pictures of artwork, the book, "Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800" (so named for the course it goes with), instead just has placeholders with instructions to see a digital version for the actual image. It’s like a website with only broken image links. Just check out this hilarious sample page from the book:

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