Brushstroke and Emergence: Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

My professor urged me to order this book to learn how to get better at making better brush strokes in my paintings. This book does not do a good job of explaining this. It is obviously written by your typical Northeastern United States phony academic. These people who have reduced art to nothing more than a polemic activity. This pompous book is laden with smug language and lame-brained opinions. This is not an instructional book - it's your typical art history essay where all the writer's favorite artists are like actors in the little play that put on in their brains. It's little more than celebrity worship and the telling of tall-tales. Anyway - don't waste your money. Fake intellectuals like this give academia the bad name it has today.