The Macmillan Art Informer will push open the doors of enjoyment for everyone who is interested in art, but has felt that they cannot understand it without some special knowledge or training.
The key to these doors is the recognition that art is essentially the product of our society and reflects its nature.
The first part introduces some of the many aspects of the nature of art and explores their interrelationships. A concise historical survey forms the econd part. It singles out essential trends of history so that the reader can comprehend the relationships of period and place implied by art-historical labels.
The third and major part of the book brings the arts themselves into close historical and social focus.
The Macmillan Art Informer is illustrated with more than 450 reproductions of paintings and drawings, photographs of sculpture, architecture and artifacts, and maps.
