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Title: Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton ISBN: 0-415-14890-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Art Appreciation
Comment: The author discusses the elements which make up a work of art from the Western world; from the Fifteeth century to Modern times. Even with her technical emphasis, giving less attention into movements and subject matter, she maintains an easy writing style. An interesting and serious instruction of art appreciation. There are some colour plates, but most of the reproductions are disappointingly in black and white. For the more casual reader, this focus might be a bit tedious.
Rating: 4
Summary: Informative
Comment: I enjoyed this book on the principles and elements of design. I think she selected exemplary pictures to illustrate her point. I especially enjoyed the chapter on "subject matter". The only drawback of this book was having to flip back and forth from the reading to the painting. Also, she talked about some of the paintings color combinations that were printed in black and white. In the paperback version some of the details of the paintings were lost because they were reproduced on a small scale. Overall, though I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about design elements.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fine introduction
Comment: Composition, space, form, tone, color, subject-matter, and other pictorial elements of the plastic arts are considered and their interrelationships explained in this handy introduction, with over ninety well-chosen illustrations, some in color.
The author, an experienced art teacher, has also included illuminating essays on drawing and its purposes, looking at prints, a handy glossary of art terms, and references for further reading.
Highly recommended as eminently suitable for an Introduction to Art course, and for anyone else interested in learning to see more in paintings.
(The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)
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Title: The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland, John Boswell ISBN: 0836280059 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Art: The World's Greatest Paintings Explored and Explained by Robert Cumming ISBN: 1564588483 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts by Joshua Charles Taylor ISBN: 0226791548 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work by Robert Cumming ISBN: 078942391X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained by Alexander Sturgis, Hollis Clayson ISBN: 0823055795 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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