Looking At Pictures

Susan Woodford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2018
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-29321-8 (ISBN)

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Looking at pictures can be a delightful, exciting or moving experience, but some pictures – and these are often the most rewarding – require some explanation before they can be fully understood. Delving into the origins, designs and themes of over 100 pictures from different periods and places, this book illuminates the art of looking at – and talking about – pictures. Woodford shows how you can read a picture by examining the formal and stylistic devices used by an artist, and explores popular themes and subject matters, and the relationship of pictures to the societies that produced them. The book 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.

Susan Woodford was born and educated in the USA (BA Harvard; MA and PhD Columbia). Since moving to London, she has taught art history and lectured at the British Museum. She has published many books and articles on Greek and Roman art and has also written Looking at Pictures in the Art Essentials series.

Introduction • 1. Ways of Looking at Pictures • 2. Land and Sea • 3. Portraits • 4. Everyday Things • 5. History and Mythology • 6. The Christian World • 7. Creating Patterns on Flat Surfaces • 8. Tradition • 9. Design and Organization • 10. The Depiction of Space • 11. Formal Analysis • 12. Hidden Meanings • 13. Quality

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Art Essentials
Zusatzinfo	103 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-500-29321-X / 050029321X
ISBN-13	978-0-500-29321-8 / 9780500293218
Zustand	Neuware