/lit/ - Literature

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The Very Short Introduction book series is a series of books which, as advertised, provide very short introductions to topics. The kinds of topics covered by the Very Short Introduction books are usually fairly intellectual topics, like topics in philosophy, the sciences, the arts, and the overall work of individual authors who've worked in these areas. You won't find Very Short Introduction books on practical/everyday topics like personal finance or sports trivia or home construction, for example. Or if there are some like this, they're the exception, and not the rule.

The basic purpose of the book series is to give freshmen in college and other legally adult plebs a starting point with challenging intellectual topics, or challenging and often misunderstood authors in philosophy.

Despite each book being very short, the book series has become quite long, with several hundred entries on various topics. Every book has a uniform type of cover art: a simple color field painting, or graphic, which looks just like the well-known paintings of the artist Mark Rothko. Since a discussion of Rothko would be appropriate for the book series, I consider it to be extremely ironic that as of yet, there does not exist a Very Short Introduction of Rothko.

If the artist and painting information isn't in the filename could you please post it in your text? Example:

Number 14, 1960
Mark Rothko
Oil on canvas

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