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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Every Picture Hides a Story is the first book to expose the subliminal content in the world's greatest paintings. Titillating, subversive, and building on the groundbreaking work of pioneers of art criticism, this book will enable readers to view art masterpieces with greater understanding"--
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. All life on Earth depends on and survives because of the four elements of nature. Poets and painters alike have captured their allure and our desire for beauty. But how do artists render the essence of atmosphere and light, the sky, fog and mist, and wind and snow, as well as different terrain, mountains, wildfire, and festive fireworks? Now, over 50 contemporary artists and more than 400 paintings reveal the secret every...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. 0Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Presents ten paintings, including works by artists from Hieronymus Bosch and Jan Breughel the Elder to such modern painters as Marc Chagall and Georges Seurat, surrounded by six close-up views, with notes about pictures, dates, and artists.
11) Masterpiece mix
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Uses works displayed in the National Gallery of Art to introduce common subjects and genres in painting.
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