Learning to Look at Paintings

"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 analyzing 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. 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.

ISBN 0415435188   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780415435185 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 484 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780415148900 Publication date 30 Sep 2008   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress 2008019950   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 750.118   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

1		Composition		1
2		Space		29
3		Form		56
4		Tone		88
5		Colour		118
6		Subject-matter		135
7		Drawing and its purposes		175
8		Looking at prints		202
Conclusion		The use of comparison as an aid to looking		228
App. 1		Some questions to ask yourself when standing in front of a painting		233
App. 2		Glossary of some art terms		234
		References and further reading		247
		Index		254

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

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