Looking At Pictures

Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500293218

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Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford Pdf

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.),John Szarkowski
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821226231

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Looking at Photographs by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski Pdf

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 : Heiko Hecht,Robert Schwartz,Margaret Atherton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262083108

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Looking Into Pictures by Heiko Hecht,Robert Schwartz,Margaret Atherton Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811224244

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Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser Pdf

A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

Author : Jane Doonan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Children
ISBN : 090335540X

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Looking at Pictures in Picture Books by Jane Doonan Pdf

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
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035432319

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Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking Back) by Louise Lawler Pdf

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 : Susan Woodford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521243718

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Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford Pdf

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.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781465421203

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Art That Changed the World by DK Pdf

Experience the uplifting power of art on this breathtaking visual tour of 2,500 paintings and sculptures created by more than 700 artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst. This beautiful book brings you the very best of world art from cave paintings to Neoexpressionism. Enjoy iconic must-see works, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies and discover less familiar artists and genres from all parts of the globe. Art That Changed the World covers the full sweep of world art, including the Ming era in China, and Japanese, Hindu, and Indigenous Australian art. It analyses recurring themes such as love and religion, explaining key genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art. Art That Changed the World explores each artist's key works and vision, showing details of their technique, such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and traces how one genre informed another - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, and how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. Lavishly illustrated throughout, look no further for your essential guide to the pantheon of world art.

Author : Bernard Berenson
Publisher : New York : Abrams
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : UCSD:31822032629115

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Looking at Pictures with Bernard Berenson by Bernard Berenson Pdf

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141917986

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Ways of Seeing by John Berger Pdf

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Author : Whitechapel Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0854882472

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Mary Heilmann by Whitechapel Art Gallery Pdf

"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 : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258482797

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How People Look at Pictures by Guy Thomas Buswell Pdf

Author : Joy Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 0713646853

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Looking at Pictures by Joy Richardson Pdf

The history of Western European painting, explored through some of the world's most famous pictures. Each chapter of this book looks at an important aspect of the study of art, including the use of light, perspective, painting portraits, symbols in art, materials and techniques. The work of artists from Uccello to Picasso is presented chronologically within each chapter, giving a mini-history of European painting. Full page pictures and carefully chosen details are designed to inform young readers as well as to capture the eye and imagination. The National Gallery holds one of Britain's most well-known collections of European paintings. This book makes the collection accessible, not just to those who visit the gallery, but to all those who visit local galleries, study art at school or come across these famous paintings as posters or prints.

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 0747565562

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Reading Pictures by Alberto Manguel Pdf

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 : Robert Clermont Witt
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015805906

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How to Look at Pictures by Robert Clermont Witt Pdf

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