Looking at Pictures
Part of Cambridge Introduction to the History of Art
- Author: Susan Woodford
- Date Published: December 1991
- availability: Unavailable - out of print September 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521286473
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Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended to increase pleasure and stimulate thought. It tackles many aspects of looking at paintings as well. Starting with familiar ideas, Dr Susan Woodford moves on to explore subtler, less obvious concepts. For example, she shows how paintings can be appreciated as patterns on a flat surface emotional effect; how ordinary objects can conceal hidden meanings and how knowledge of tradition improves our understanding of revolutionary works.
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- Date Published: December 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521286473
- length: 128 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 170 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.281kg
- contains: 76 b/w illus. 26 colour illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print September 2010
Table of Contents
1. Ways of looking at pictures
2. Landscape and seascape
3. Portraits
4. Everyday life and everyday things: genre and still life
5. History and mythology
6. Religious images
7. Pictures as decorations on flat surfaces
8. Tradition
9. Considerations of design and organisation
10. Problems in the depiction of space
11. An approach to stylistic analysis: renaissance and baroque contrasted
12. Hidden meanings
13. Quality
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