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Learning to look at paintings
- Title
- Learning to look at paintings / Mary Acton.
- Author
- Acton, Mary.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | ND1143 .A38 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxx, 241 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- Mary Acton shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. She describes the ingredients of composition, space, form, tone and colour which make up a picture, and discusses the importance of subject matter and the original function and setting of a picture in appreciating its visual meanings.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Composition -- Space -- Form -- Tone -- Colour -- Subject-matter -- Drawing and its purposes -- Looking at prints -- Conclusion : the use of comparison as an aid to looking -- Appendix 1. Some questions to ask yourself when standing in front of a painting -- Appendix 2. Glossary of some art terms.
- ISBN
- 0415148898
- 9780415148894
- 0415148901
- 9780415148900
- LCCN
- 97160203
- 9780415148900
- 780415148900 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- ocm36790534
- 36790534
- SCSB-368248
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library