Learning to Look at Paintings

ISBN-13: 9780415435178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 268 str.

Mary Acton

Opis

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 develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other.

This fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated with over one hundred images by a wide range of Western European and American artists, ranging from Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Botticelli to Picasso, Matisse and Rothko, and now includes modern and contemporary artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Anselm Kiefer, Tacita Dean and Marlene Dumas. In addition, Mary Acton presents new examples highlighting the survival and revival of painting in recent years, including artists such as Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville, also discussed at length by Mary Acton in Learning to Look at Modern Art.

A new introduction situates the book in the wider context of recent changes in the approach to Art History. A glossary of critical and technical terms used in the language of Art History is also included, with an updated but still selective reading list.

Recenzje

'Each of the six chapters has a succint introduction and a short but useful summary... Recommended.' – CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction to the Second Edition  List of Figures  List of Plates  Preface Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Composition  2. Space  3. Form  4. Tone  5. Colour  6. Subject Matter  7. Drawing and its Purposes  8. Looking at Prints.  Conclusion: The Use of Comparison as an Aid to Looking.  Appendix 1: Some Questions to Ask Yourself When Standing in Front of a Painting  Appendix 2: Glossary of Art Terms.  References and Further Reading.  Index