How to Read Art

How to Read Art : A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings

How to Read Art : A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings

  • Format: Paperback | 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 137 x 165 x 18mm | 397g
  • Publication date: 28 Nov 2017
  • Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Illustrations note: 350 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ISBN10: 0789329166
  • ISBN13: 9780789329165
  • Bestsellers rank: 66,967

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. How to Read Art is the perfect companion for anyone interested in paintings and a book that no art lover's home should be without.

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