Learning to Look at Paintings" is an accessible guide to the study & appraisal of paintings drawings & prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual analytical & historical skills in learning to look at & understand an image by analyzing how it works what its pictorial elements are & how they relate to each other. This fully revised & updated new edition is illustrated with over one hundred images by a wide range of Western European & American artists ranging from Rembrandt Van Gogh & Botticelli to Picasso Matisse & Rothko & now
Includes:: modern & contemporary artists such as Georgia OKeeffe Anselm Kiefer Tacita Dean & Marlene Dumas. In addition Mary Acton presents new examples highlighting the survival & revival of painting in recent years. A new introduction situates the book in the wider context of recent changes in the approach to Art History. A glossary of critical & technical terms used in the language of Art History is also included with an updated but still selective reading list."