It All Started With Nudes: An Artful History of Art

by Richard Armour, Campbell Grant (Illustrator)

Genres: Humor, History, Art

155 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1977

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Moonkiszt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dad read this when mom was going to Chaffey College, taking an art class about drawing nudes. He always showed up early to pick her up from class, but us kids had to wait in the car. It was weird.

[BespectacledBookGirl]

Not quite as good as The Decline and Fall of Practically everybody, but fun nonetheless.

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Humorous and cute. A nice jumping off point for future study of art.