January 19, 1994

This semester I was assigned a GEC 101 (general education art history/studio class) slot, a class I'd taught a few times before. What was new this year was that the professor who taught the fall and spring lecture sections was using a new textbook, one he created. The advantage in doing this (besides the obvious financial ones) is that Jed now had a text that more closely matched the themes and artworks he was teaching, rather than using a general text. The disadvantage, compared to the one used previously, was that there were only 10 pages of color. Sometimes this isn't so bad, but when Rothko's Orange and Yellow is shown in black and white, it's very hard to understand the point of the painting.