/lit/ - Literature

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Yes, I do agree with her as the only people, who claim to still love Classical literature don’t even talk about it. This stupid bitch was probably never going to read the Classics anyways even if they were all written by Sub-Saharan Africans, yet everyone one here will whinge about her opinion anyway.

Recently I’ve become really interested in art history, especially the history of artistic movements. What books do you recommend that delve into these topics? Textbooks, journals, coffee table books, really any book that doesn’t skimp on the details. I’m looking for something with rigorous scholarship.

>read the Recognitions
>contains the phrase 'beast with two backs'
>thought it was some cool mythical chimera shit. a grotesque that defied reality
>thought this for years & then it turns out it was just shakespeare being smutty