Art The Way It Is Author:John Adkins Richardson In Art: The Way It Is, John Adkins Richardson describes how we have become a visually illiterate culture due to the wealth of visual images that bombard us daily, and strives to restore that intensity of perception which has been dulled by the mass media. Rejecting standard art-appreciation teaching methods, Richardson concentrates on what is im... more »mediate, timeless, and fundamental, and simply and clearly explains principles by starting with material familiar to the reader. In this Fourth Edition of Art: The Way It Is, the format has been expanded to include 61 new illustrations, 14 new colorplates, a brief and invaluable survey of the history of Western art, and a fascinating chapter on art and money, which deals with art as an investment and with the often baffling questions of replicas, copies, and forgeries.« less