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LEARNING TO LOOK AT PAINTINGS
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| By: |
Mary Acton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415148898 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415148894 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
6 March, 1997 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
This is a critique of works of art dating from the early fifteenth century through to modern installations. Suggesting a series of questions to ask when looking at a painting this will help develop a critical understanding of art. |
| Synopsis: |
Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. The book is illustrated with over ninety images by artists ranging from Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Botticelli to Picasso, Matisse and Rothko. It also includes a glossary of critical and technical terms used in art history. She describes the ingredients of composition, space, form, tone and colour which make up a picture, and discusses the importance of subject matter and the original function and setting of a picture in appreciating its visual meanings. Mary Acton discusses work by a wide range of Western European and American artists, from the fifteenth century to the present day. |
| Illustrations: |
76 b&w photographs, 22 colour photographs, glossary |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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