Following is a summary of the results of our inquiry
about art books for young adults/teens:
ART
BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS/TEENS
- History
of art for young people / Anthony F. Janson. 5th ed. Prentice
Hall, 1997.
- Art
/ Diane Lindsay Reeves.; illustrations by Nancy Bond. Series: Career
ideas for kids who like… NY: Facts on File, 1998.
- The
annotated Mona Lisa: a crash course in art history from prehistoric to
post-modern / Carol Strickland and John Boswell. Kansas City: Andrews
and McNeel, c1992.
- Abrams
might have: http://www.abramsbooks.com/ (I contacted them but no reply to
date; however the Greenfeld books (below) are from Abrams, I believe.)
- Books
by Sister Wendy are very accessible.
- Books
by Howard Greenfeld on Calder, Chagall & Gauguin. (Abrams?)
- A
first book of Canadian art / Richard Rhodes (Editor of
Canadian Art Magazine). http//www.fireflybooks.com/books/1894379217A.html
.
- Prestel has some excellent young adult
publications, according to one source. I contacted them. (Edited) answers:
- The
series “Museum of Adventures” is geared towards a slightly
older [than children] audience, but the books are not exactly art history
books—they are more like adventure stories that deal with art and
art history.
- They
have a series of books on artists, called “Pegasus series”,
that are more traditional books with accurate scholarship, that might be
appropriate for a younger [than adult] audience. They are designed with
the general audience in mind, so people don’t have to be college
students or art history majors to understand them... Some of
the artists that the books cover are: Dali, Hopper, Kahlo, Vermeer,
Chagall, among many others.
Heather Brodhead, Librarian
Constance & George Fearing Library
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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