by Jon Lackman | 8 March 2006 | Books, Teaching
Another choice bit from the Times story on the new Janson: “‘I can see the reasons, artistically, for dropping Whistler’s mother,’ said [instructor] Mickey McConnell … ‘But it’s become so well known, such a part of the culture. What if there’s a cartoon in The New Yorker that uses it as a reference? Younger students aren’t going to know what it’s talking about.’” Jossip.com: “We could not imagine anything worse than not being able to comprehend a New Yorker cartoon.”
From another blog: “calling it the ‘first thoroughly revised version’ loses tons of credibility points, what were the other five editions, chopped liver? And not mentioning the ‘New & Improved!’ DVD edition which is heavily promoted on the website is probably just going to annoy the publicist hired by Pearson Prentice Hall. Finally, if you think this all a mountain being made out of a molehill, the book itself costs $107.33 (standard class size these days for an intro to Art History is about 50, or $5,366.50 per class, not bad scratch, eh?)”
