How to read art
a crash course in understanding & interpreting paintings
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Author
Publication
2015 - Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehowtoreadartcras0000ride
- ISBN-100789329166
- ISBN-139780789329165
- Library of Congress Control Number2014948368
- OCLC Control Number884480244
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780789329165
- Open LibraryOL35347384M
Classifications
- DDC701.18
- LCCN7477 .R55 2015
Description
This charmingly illustrated, highly informative field guide to understanding art history is small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers. This seventh entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's great artworks. The book explains the aesthetics of schools of painting from the Renaissance masters and Impressionists to the Cubists and Modernists. It enables readers to develop swiftly an understanding of the vocabulary of painting and to discover how to look at diverse paintings in detail. In the first part of the book, the author reveals how to read paintings by considering five key areas: shape and support, style and medium, compositional devices, genre, and the meaning of recurring motifs and symbols. The second part explores fifty paintings through extracted details, accompanied by insightful commentary, training the reader and viewer to understand context and discover meaning within art.
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