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redtenaj's review
3.0
All in all, this book was well worth my time to read it. And it wasn't quick for me to read. I found this book by accident on the library shelf, and I ended up learning a lot about someone I'd never heard of before, who was innovative in a field I'd known only superficially before. I have only two criticisms, both of which are more my hang-ups than the book's.
This a well-researched book. It is obviously not fiction, but at times it read like a dissertation or a textbook. The footnotes, bibliography and index only reinforced that feeling.
The author went to great lengths to detail the social and scientific environments that existed during Merian's life, as well as potential influences of hers and who she influenced. But I tended to speed-read (or skip) long sections about the other artists, collectors, philosophers, and contemporaries of hers. I was impatient to get to Merian's story.
This a well-researched book. It is obviously not fiction, but at times it read like a dissertation or a textbook. The footnotes, bibliography and index only reinforced that feeling.
The author went to great lengths to detail the social and scientific environments that existed during Merian's life, as well as potential influences of hers and who she influenced. But I tended to speed-read (or skip) long sections about the other artists, collectors, philosophers, and contemporaries of hers. I was impatient to get to Merian's story.
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