Seeing Through Paintings
Title | Seeing Through Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Kirsh |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300094084 |
This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present. “An essential handbook for the pro, and also a beautifully illustrated primer for the layperson. Kirsh and Levenson teach the most valuable lessons about painting of all: how meanings, material, and techniques are bound up together.”—John Walsh, former director, J. Paul Getty Museum “Every element of Kirsh and Levenson's book is smart, concise, and informative. . . . [It is] the essential book on its subject.”—Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle “A long overdue book with direct relevance for modern students of the history of art.”—Libby Sheldon, Burlington Magazine
Looking Through Paintings
Title | Looking Through Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Erma Hermens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781876132569 |
Focussing on different periods and works, the articles in this book illuminate the role that the study of painting techniques and materials can have within art historical research.
Looking at Paintings
Title | Looking at Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Erika Langmuir |
Publisher | Bunker Hill Publishing Company |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781593730086 |
Follow Mickey and his friends through this most magical of worlds as they show us how to look at, understand, and enjoy the works of the greatest artists.
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Title | Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Weschler |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520045958 |
Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space
How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
Title | How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art PDF eBook |
Author | David Salle |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0393248143 |
“If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The ‘how’ of art has perhaps never been better explored.” —Salman Rushdie How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influential twentieth-century artists. Engaging with a wide range of Salle’s friends and contemporaries—from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others—How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres. Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist’s eye.
Ways of Seeing
Title | Ways of Seeing PDF eBook |
Author | John Berger |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2008-09-25 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 014103579X |
Contains seven essays. Three of them use only pictures. Examines the relationship between what we see and what we know.
Pictures and Tears
Title | Pictures and Tears PDF eBook |
Author | James Elkins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2005-08-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 113595013X |
This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.