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A Disappointing Collection of Statistics.......2007-05-12

This book is a collection of about 20 different statistics for each of the 100 towns. It would be time-consuming to do this research on your own, so I suppose some people will find it worthwhile as a starting point.

However, I imagine that most people interested in the subject are looking for a book that describes communities in ways that are more illuminating.

The only other information Crampton provides are quotes from town residents. But these residents are typically town boosters, such as members of the Chamber of Commerce and local politicians. The responses seem as though they were the result of a cursory phone interview or perhaps a survey form. The statements they provide are almost as uninformative as the statistics.

If you're looking for a book that will give you some idea of what it's like to actually live in these towns, look elsewhere. A town might look great on paper and still be a dreary place to actually live. It would have been nice if Crampton had at least visited the towns he promotes.

One final criticism. The book jacket advertises that diversity is one of the criteria upon which the towns were chosen. But the only thing that comes close to that is a statistic about the percentage of the population comprising youngish adults. There is no data on race, ethnicity, age (other than the one group mentioned), or income distribution. I believe Crampton should either include information on population diversity or stop advertising content that he doesn't provide.

Very Disappointed!.......2004-11-28

I was looking forward to getting this book. Well, I just got it in the mail and am extremely disappointed with the information. Many of the towns I am very familiar with because I have either visited or done research on my own. The bottom line with this book is this: the information is not just old it is "very old"! Save your money, buy a different book, or just do internet searches. I wish I had.

Author never visited my highly rated town!.......2002-05-29

My town, Elko, NV, was rated #1. Mr Crampton did not bother to visit here. If he had it would never have made any good list. It was a boom town of trailers, pick ups, and four wheelers, populated by trashy people. It is now a bust town. Elko is only good if you want to buy a trailer the bank has repoed.

Former Mayor of one of the Best Small Towns Speaks out.......1999-02-09

I am the former Mayor of Poteau (Poe-Toe), Oklahoma which is included in the book "The 100 Best Small Towns in America" to live in. I know the author Norman Crampton and worked with him a lot, supplying him with truthful and accurate information on our town for the book. Mr. Crampton did portray our town exactly as it is, a place that Norman Rockwell would have loved. I have also had the opportunity to visit many of the other towns in the book and beleive that his portrayal of those towns is likewise very accurate, without bias. Since the first edition came out in 1992 we have had a great many families who have moved here as a result of reading the book. My wife and I now own Homestead Realty here in Poteau and I am happy to testify that Mr. Crampton's book is right on target....a good place to start looking for a great place to raise a family, rural America at it's best. "Diamond Don" Barnes Poteau, Oklahoma Mayor (1991-1995) E-Mail: diamond@clnk.com

Nationally Certified Relocation Specialist Loves It!.......1998-07-15

I am a real estate broker and a nationally certified relocation specialist. I use this book as a preliminary step to help my clients get a feel for various communities within the United States. I used the '92 edition myself to determine the best place to move my own family. I can tell you that the information here is valid and generally a good reflection of any given community. As a result of this book my family and I are now very happily living and working in Poteau, Oklahoma, which is everything the book indicated. If you'd like to know more about this book, real estate, relocation services, or the area where I now live and work e-mail Shirley at srrealty@clnk.com.

The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Discover Creative Communities, Fresh Air, and Affordable Living

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great read but far from reality
Clueless
Hot Springs, Ark., Definitely HOT for Art Lovers!
completely out of date, dont bother
Short-sighted research

The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Discover Creative Communities, Fresh Air, and Affordable Living
John Villani
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great read but far from reality.......2007-10-04

I thought this book was a good read. Coming from canada we were not aware of all the many so- called arts towns in the usa. I sincerely doubt that the author has done any extensive research on the subject of moving and costs of living. The author also seems to have an extreme left wing bias. We have visited a number of these so- called arts towns. Many of them are either over- priced or in sad shape. I suggest mr. villani stay in the land of disenchantment new mexico, were his leftist , ideological view of the country can remain. Save your money , get it at the library.

Clueless.......2007-09-01

A friend of mine and I both recently read this book, and were dismayed at the places it did not include. I live near Kingston, NY, recently named one of the ten best places (of any size) in the US for artists to live, and near Woodstock, NY. Neither was mentioned by Villani. Kingston has become a great town for artists only recently, so the book is merely out of date with respect to Kingston, but Woodstock has been an artists' colony for a century. The air is great in Woodstock; though there is only a little affordable housing there, there is plenty in nearby villages.

Hot Springs, Ark., Definitely HOT for Art Lovers!.......2006-04-10

The key word in Villani's title is ART, and we've got plenty of it in Hot Springs. With over 27 non-profits directly related to the visual and performing arts, the author hits right on the money to concentrate on the Hot Springs Music Festival, held first two weeks of June every year; the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in October, one of four preliminary sites for the Academy Awards; and 200 consecutive monthly Gallery Walks in Historic Downtown. Affordable? We think so. Refreshing? Absolutely. For more information, see www.nativecuriosity.blogspot.com.

completely out of date, dont bother.......2005-07-20

I bought this book last year, and while it may have some good ideas about which towns to go to, the prices of the housing is completely out of date. You cannot buy a house in any of these places for the prices he quotes. Obviously the real estate boom has made this resource obsolete. I wish he would write another book like this, but with up -to -date home prices.

Short-sighted research.......2005-02-25

The city of Fort Myers, FL is disparraged in this book as a menagerie of NASCAR fans and strip clubs. Anyone who's spent time in Fort Myers knows that there aren't many strip clubs and the ones that are here aren't a big part of the local scene (what to do on a random Saturday night) like they are in other parts of Florida, like Tampa, Clearwater, or Miami.

The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Where to Find Fresh Air, Creative People, and Affordable Living

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The 100 Best Small Towns in America
Crampton Norman
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THE 100 BEST SMALL ART TOWNS IN AMERICA

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This book is the fourth to be published in a series of volumes that will be the first complete scholarly catalogue of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art--a collection of paintings, drawings, and decorative-arts objects that possesses in itself the breadth and quality of a major museum. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are largely from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They include an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and a number of other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from this period.

Landscape Drawings of Five Centuries, 1400-1900: From the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Landscape Drawings of Five Centuries, 1400-1900: From the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert Lehman
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Eighteenth century Italian drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York
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Eighteenth century Italian drawings, from the Robert Lehman Collection: Catalogue

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Eighteenth century Italian drawings, from the Robert Lehman Collection: Catalogue
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John Pope-Hennessy: Italian Paintings/the Robert Lehman Collection : Vol. 1 (Robert Lehman Collection: 6)

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John Pope-Hennessy: Italian Paintings/the Robert Lehman Collection : Vol. 1 (Robert Lehman Collection: 6)
John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy , Hennessy John Pope , and Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Masterpieces of Italian Drawing in the Robert Lehman Collection

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Masterpieces of Italian Drawing in the Robert Lehman Collection
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Masterpieces of Italian drawing in the Robert Lehman Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art / by George Szabo

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Masterpieces of Italian drawing in the Robert Lehman Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art / by George Szabo
George Szabo
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The Robert Lehman Collection
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann , Mary Tavener Holmes , Fritz Koreny , Donald Posner , and Duncan Robinson
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Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings, including the large study of Leonardo's Last Supper that would stay in his mind all through his career, whenever he depicted groups of figures conversing with each other. Drawings by Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin are among the many from eighteenth-century France.

This volume is the ninth to be published in a projected series of sixteen that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It discusses all 140 drawings at length, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of related works.

The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carol Clark
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Maurice Prendergast's Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook, a book of 140 sketches he made in Paris in the 1890s, and four of his drawings from the early 1900s are the highlights of Robert Lehman's collection of American drawings and watercolors. Mr. Lehman also acquired a book of sketches that record Robert Henri's trip to Spain in 1906 and one of drawings by Henri's wife, Marjorie Organ; a sketchbook that David Levine filled with his impressions of Europe in 1960; and several other twentieth-century drawings and watercolors, by James McNeill Whistler, Charles Prendergast, George Luks, William Glackens, James Preston, and other American artists. This is the fifth to be published in a series of volumes that will be the first complete scholarly catalogue of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sandra Hindman , Mirella Levi D'Ancona , Pia Palladino , and Maria Francesca Saffiotti
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This book presents the exceptional group of illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Robert Lehman (1892-1969), one of the great private art collectors of the twentieth century, collected these illuminations as an extension of his remarkable collection of early European paintings and drawings.

Among the works catalogued here are a miniature by Simon Marmion--the "prince d'enluminure"--painted for a Breviary for Charles the Bold and Margaret of York, and, among the Italian illuminations, a Last Judgment in an Initial C by the great Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco and an Adoration of the Magi by Francesco Marmitta. A Self-Portrait by Simon Bening and a Virgin and Child by Francesco Morone are early examples of small paintings on parchment conceived as independent works of art rather than as illustrations for manuscripts. Also here are a leaf painted for the Hours of ftienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet, the most celebrated French painter of the fifteenth century, and a miniature Holy Face by Gerard David that was possibly created as an independent devotional image. All the illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in color, and copious comparative illustrations supplement the extensive catalogue entries. This is the seventh in a projected series of sixteen volumes that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection.

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