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

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Painting & paintings

• Full title: Looking At Pictures
• Author: Susan Woodford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780500293218
• ISBN: 050029321X
• ID: 16485860
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 142 × 216 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. April 2018

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