Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Looking At Pictures
Author(s): Woodford Susan
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500293218
Pages: 176 Pages, 103 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 5/15/2018
Series: Art Essentials
Category: Painting & Paintings