Looking At Pictures

Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050029321X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Pictures written by Susan Woodford and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821226230
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Photographs written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811224246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Pictures written by Robert Walser and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

Author : Jane Doonan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780903355407
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Pictures in Picture Books written by Jane Doonan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Louise Lawler
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking Back) written by Louise Lawler and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 20 years Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ. This work explores such themes in Lawler's practice as her relationship to sculpture, her history of collaborative projects, her production of ephemera, & the steady political dimension of her work.

Author : Bernard Berenson
Publisher : New York : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Pictures with Bernard Berenson written by Bernard Berenson and published by New York : Abrams. This book was released on 1974 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747565567
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Pictures written by Alberto Manguel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Whitechapel Art Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780854882472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Heilmann written by Whitechapel Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 8 June--21 August 2016"--Copyright page.

Author : Guy Thomas Buswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258482794
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How People Look at Pictures written by Guy Thomas Buswell and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Clermont Witt
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015805903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Look at Pictures written by Robert Clermont Witt and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.