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Janson and Gombrich (the latter being a relatively lighter read) are the standards in the area of art history.

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>>9620060
yeah, i was going to ask if there was anything that isnt textbook size, will check out gombrich. im interested in painting in particular.

Why is art like that considered good? I am genuinely asking. It looks stupid.

>>9619983
Are you autistic?
Just read it what the fuck.

skim extracts. you'll get the idea

You don't need to read any of the chapters

>>9619937

Yes, but skip the philosophy chapters.

>>9619946
>Skipping chapters
pleb

>skipping philosophical chapters
brainlet detected

>>9619946
Don't come back here

>>9619909
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same

>>9619909
Real gangsters move in silence

underage b&

>>9619916
I'm 20 actually.

>>9619923
>BAC
>20
literal retard b&

The trouble with men is they're full of Thursday, dear me I'm terribly clever

God something Jesus something something

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>entire point of previously not specifically religious work hinges on your in-depth knowledge of a specific Bible quote

Goddamn so much of the Western canon is gonna be obsolete and irrelevant in a hundred years...

Sure, why not? That word has lost all meaning since 2001, anyway.

The Orwellian thing about "alternative facts" is that the constant pushing of the term, to discredit wrongthinkers outside the acceptable spectrum of discourse, is an Orwellian process in itself, systematically and unanimously undertaken by a news media owned by corporatists, in bed with the entire politico caste of cronyist bureaucrats who run the country, and staffed by the bourgeois brats of the upper classes.

CNN saying "'alternative facts' is an Orwellian concept!" is like Big Brother in 1984 issuing propaganda about how the enemy will attempt to issue propaganda to you, except the warning is about leaflets you might see stapled to telephone polls, and Big Brother's method is beaming its message directly into your fucking brain while you sleep.

>>9619838
This
CNN is one of the worst things ever to happen

>>9619704
Normal books don't need batteries.

>>9619704
But I do

>>9619713
You have no idea how long the batteries on an ebook last, its insane

>>9619704
I spend way too much time in front of screens, it's nice to get away from them once in a while.

No one will give it to him.

>>9619481
Sounds like what I would expect from a jew who stumbled upon fame through ethnic nepotism and created a fake image of himself as some kind of hyperintellectual savant but who was really only ever just a mentally deranged jew, and one who unsurprisingly can't write for shit.

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good movie

Because

>'Any good I've done has been spoiled by bad intentions—the preoccupation with irrelevant and stupid things,' [he] replied. Then very slowly, with emphasis, surely conscious of Ginsberg's being Jewish: 'But the worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-semitism.

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>>9619443
Saved this post about how to get into the cantos

Always meant to just never had time plus scary oriental letters

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>>9619459
here, if you're really interested in reading the Cantos, have this.

https://mega.nz/#!QAAhnAKS!5tQFZX-jzRH3inSOg-rZZkWaE-3llEabt0LPG5WOYQE

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>>9619401
You made a shitty poll, OP

A better poll would be using age ranges, like "less than 16, 16-20, 21-29, 30-39, 40+", etc.

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>>9619460
duly noted

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>>9619401
>tfw so many sixteen year olds post here
>they're probably far more intelligent than me

bumperoo

You need someone else, not necessarily a therapist although a therapist might make the process more efficient. Essentially you need someone there to reality test you by observing kind of latent patterns in your personal narrative and pointing out how they might be inhibiting you. This would be very hard to do on yourself and if you could you probably wouldn't need to.

Just read the stoics.

>>9619324
Hack pseud with chafed nips

>>9619324
He's a complete brainlet. There's nothing worth commenting about.

>>9619334
>>9619333
This, and in addition he suffers from the same faults as Gibbon (although none of the gifts), such as an inability to conceive of sincere faith and religious experience and a willingness to delve into areas where his lack of experience is obvious.

On the plus side he has the capacity to get interesting guests and let them talk without butting in, so that is something.

>tfw literally every question you can ask has been answered in it.
Who does it say is the best anime waifu?

You clearly haven't read the bible.
They're pretty identical.
Quran just got worse versions of the stories.

>>9619322
>Tfw the Qur'an is one book without variations and is pitted against several contradictory ones, yet its versions are called worse and not completely accurate

I'm reading 2666 right now, and quite enjoying it. I'll probably look at By Night in Chile next, though if people have other recommendations, I'd love to hear them.

>novels by and for art school cranks
no thanksss

>>9619287
I'm always kinda baffled how he also LOOKED like El Chavo