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| Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (Themes) | 
 enlarge | Author: Emma Dexter
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $69.95
Buy New: $43.97
You Save: $25.98 (37%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 17337
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0714845450
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.9242
EAN: 9780714845456
ASIN: 0714845450
Publication Date: December 1, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 If you have any sort of an interest in art... November 12, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Then you will absolutely fall in love with this book. This book is full of images from a wide range of media and artists. The short bios on the artists are short but informative and don't take up much space (more room for pictures). If you're something of an artist yourself then you can certainly pull lots of ideas from this book. I definitely am glad I bought this book.
 Refreshing contents but poor quality reproductions! October 25, 2006
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
As an art teacher, artist and scholar I buyed the book for it's very interesting overview of contemporary drawing, a fiew of the artists I already knew. Maybe because of the thick matte paper used in printing, a lot of the drawings loose their sharpness and overall colourfulness and clarity. In comparing reproductions in other publications (e.g. "Drawings" Michael Borremans, edit. Walther Koenig, Koeln) one can only ascertain that the loss of quality is in fact unacceptable for such an ambitious publication like "Vitamin D". Moreover the bigger part of the art works are printed in a too small size for allowing a good viewing.
Wonderful !!! August 6, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Not only the content is insightful, but the design of this book is just wonderful. It is a good source of international drawing's world and a good coffee table book. Get it now!
 poor quality images July 24, 2006
28 out of 40 found this review helpful
I am disappointed with the quality of the images. They are the quality of an ink jet printer set at draft quality. Most of the images are so faded it is difficult to see at all. I have returned this book, which is something I do once every 1000 books I order, and it is the first art book I have ever returned in my life.
obsessed drafter July 22, 2006
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Beautifully bound and a pleasure to hold...what a book is all about vs the digital stuff.
Two small niggles....first; the larger drafted works when reduced for the book become virtually unreadible (maybe they could have got a page each?) and second; the dust cover while beautiful and reflecting the texture and aesthetics of the book is virtually useless for it's purpose as it is too easily torn.
I gave it 5 because I'm prejudiced!
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