$97.08
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2008
Summary
Unlock the Secrets: A Guide to Understanding Paintings
Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other.
This fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated with over 100 images by a wide r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780415435185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0415435188 |
| Author: | Mary Acton |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
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‘Each of the six chapters has a succint introduction and a short but useful summary… Recommended.’
‘Each of the six chapters has a succint introduction and a short but useful summary… Recommended.’ – CHOICE
About The Author
Mary Acton
Mary Acton was Course Director of the Undergraduate Diploma and Advanced Diploma in the History of Art at Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She continues to teach at Oxford University and works as a freelance lecturer, and Learning to Look at Paintings is based on her experience over many years as an art historian and teacher. She is the author of Learning to look at Modern Art (2004).
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