Looking at Pictures

Author: Susan Woodford
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 050029321X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An accessible and attractive beginner’s guide to getting the most out of looking at pictures Beautifully illustrated with some of the world’s greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst, this affordable guide explains the art of looking at and understanding pictures, equipping the reader with the vision and tools to approach any museum picture with confidence. Looking at pictures can be an exciting or moving experience, but some pictures—often the most rewarding—require some explanation before they can be fully understood. Delving into the origins, designs, and themes of over one hundred pictures from different periods and places, this book illuminates the art of looking at—and talking about—pictures. Susan Woodford shows how one can read a picture by examining the formal and stylistic devices used by an artist, and she explores popular themes and subject matter, and the relationship of pictures to the societies that produced them. This indispensable guide is supplemented by a glossary of key terms, ranging from art movements and technical terms to religious and classical terminology, to give readers all the information they need at their fingertips.

Looking at Photographs

Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821226230
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Features new duotone reproductions of one hundred landmark photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that chronicle the historical evolution of the photographic arts in works by Adams, Weston, Stieglitz, Steichen, and other notable photographers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Looking at Pictures

Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811224246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

Looking at Pictures in Picture Books

Author: Jane Doonan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903355407
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Discusses the place of the illustration in children's picture books, looking particularly at how pictures can express abstract themes, such as moods, which cannot be shown directly. Uses examples from well-known works to illustrate the points discussed.

Looking Into Pictures

Author: Heiko Hecht
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262083102
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
In this text, philosophers, psychologists and art historians explore the implications of theories of vision for our understanding of the nature of pictorial representation and picture perception.

How to Look at Pictures

Author: Sir Robert Clermont Witt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description

Looking at Pictures with Bernard Berenson

Author: Bernard Berenson
Publisher: New York : Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description

Looking at Pictures

Author: Susan Woodford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended to increase pleasure and stimulate thought. It tackles many aspects of looking at paintings as well. Starting with familiar ideas, Dr Susan Woodford moves on to explore subtler, less obvious concepts. For example, she shows how paintings can be appreciated as patterns on a flat surface emotional effect; how ordinary objects can conceal hidden meanings and how knowledge of tradition improves our understanding of revolutionary works.

Reading Pictures

Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747565567
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, though for thousands of years this was not the case, Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images. Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book or wander through a gallery, or are there ways in which we can 'read' the stories within paintings, monumnets, buildings and sculptures? We say 'every picture tells a story', but does it? Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photagraphed, painted, built, sculpted - Alberto Manguel explores, with delight and erudition, how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent. Whether delving into the love of life in the twentieth-century world of Joan Mitchell, or the brutal complexities of Picasso's treatment of his mistress; revisiting the riddles of the past in the fifteenth-century painting of Robert Campin, or exploring the heartrending life of 'the hairy girl' whose matted fur so astonished sixteenth-century Italy, he helps us to enjoy and explore the visual landscape we live in.

Mary Heilmann

Author: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854882472
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 8 June--21 August 2016"--Copyright page.