A small part of my collection
From my high school years to my graduate days, I have known this student. Student or art history, we all gained upper body strength from lugging these behemoths around. I do not about you all, but years of conditioning caused me to expect all art history books to have this size. Whenever I come across a small book dealing with art history, it shocks me. In short, if I can’t throw an art history book at someone and give them a concussion, I do not consider it a true art history book.
Art History Ramblings 
This is very disconcerting aspect of art history publications! We had a similar ordeal with our anatomical textbooks, but since moved on as kindle and PDF editions are avilable of those volumes.
The same should apply for art history publishers too, as more of these titles are released, a larger amount of them are coming in digital editions as well, which are not only easier to lug around, but cheaper, and easier to search and reference. Just last night I purchased digital editions of Susie Nash’s Northern Renaissance volume as well as Noah Charney’s new book on the Ghent Altarpiece.
Glad to see you putting more of yourself into your posts Catherine! Keep it up!
Kind Regards
H
Thank you! However, as practical as downloading books onto Kindle, professors still feel very skittish about students using the Kindle.
These must be art history professors.. most medical schools and science depts, its the profs that push the PDFs and gadgets onto students!!
Harvard Medical School adopted kindle in a huge way, converting over 20,000 educational resources into digitally accessible editions.
H
I know one art history professor took interest in the Kindle (more for personal use). However, the whole familiarity of the book will still take precedence over the e-book.
Fun post! You have a great collection (I can tell that you’re interested in Dali and the Surrealists.) I love to collect and own art history books – but any time I have to move and pack up my books, I rue the day that I became an art history bibliophile (well, really, only a little bit). Not only are the books ridiculously heavy, but they often are large, unusual sizes that are hard to fix in standard boxes!
But such is the price to pay, right? It’s all for the love of art history.
Thank you! Yeah, moving books like these from place to place is a chore. The reason the collection has so many Dali/Surrealist books because a past situation called for it. I have a bigger collection in another storage space. Maybe I will photograph that and post it up here.