The Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia (DK Children's Visual Encyclopedias)

This is a very high quality soft side book. The images are sharp and have strong colors. The different art categories are well documented. I bought this for my granddaughter, who is interested in art and will explore the subject in great depth with this fine book….

DK never disappoints! Vibrant illustration and thoughtful dialogue. Perfect elementary art room resource.

This was a great Christmas gift for our budding artist! They love paging through it and copying artwork in their sketchbook, or just learning about the different styles of art.

Everything you'd want to know about the basics of art. I'm really enjoying it, especially as a self-taught artist that never went to art school.

Great art appreciation/history book. I bought this as a Christmas gift for a neighbor's 12 year old daughter. This book is age appropriate for an intelligent 12 year old and older. She's going to love it.

I love the book. It’s beautiful. It has high-quality photos. I like how it goes through the subject matter starting with the principles of art before getting into famous work. It mostly focuses on painting, but it does have sections for sculpture, photography, music, and dance. I am however very, unhappy that they used the wave of Kanagawa as they’re back cover art, and it’s not covered once in the book. Seems like kind of a slight.

Very knowledgeable Art book with five(5)Categories: An original encyclopedia containing more Categories, but this book is good for starting with🥰🚢👍

This book is packed with amazing images depicting the evolution of of art, from painting, sculpture, photography, music, and dance - from ancient to modern times. The photographs in this book are gorgeous, but none of the topics are covered in detail (this is an "overview" book). I highly recommend this book. I hope you find my review helpful!

Very reader friendly

Great book with quick drops of important highlights in the arts history. Never boring nor tiring, this book achieves the task of delivering a fine overview of arts, major about painting but also with some fine insights about sculpture, dance, music and photography. I was expecting a nice book to introduce and discuss arts with my kids and it came to be above my expectations. Could be a bit more detailed in the other arts (it is unevenly focused on painting arts). Yet, I recommend this book sure it is a great acquisition for every home library.

Textbooks are expensive thats no surprise. I bought this book for my art inspiration and to learn more. The colours are extremely vidid and true to the original. Very informative and I’ve learned alot already.

Very interesting illustrations and organised informations

The book is beautiful and has a good summary of many types of art. Although it can definitely cover more types and more breadth within each art type. They did a good job for Painting, but others lack breadth such as Music, none of the modern music genres are covered. Ceramics can also be included and elaborated next to Sculpture, as it is an amazing art form. There's more to like Dance, Photography and even blacksmithing and wood-carving too.