Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts
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Book Overview
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look." This handy guide to the visual arts is designed to provide a comprehensive view of art, moving from the analytic study of specific works to a consideration of broad principles and technical matters. Forty-four carefully...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226791548
ISBN13:9780226791548
Release Date:June 1981
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:186 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 9.3"
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Art Arts, Music & Photography Education & Reference History & Criticism PhotographyCustomer Reviews
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A worthy course.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Interesting, accesible and ultimately enlightening but inclined also to be dry in an "Idiot's guide" kind of way, this renders the topic a little lack lustre which for me detracts from the point of veiwing art and getting any kind of personal, emotional experience from it. Excellent for making art accesible nonetheless and demystifying the nonsense that art glitterarty types surround the topic in so needlessly and prentiontiously.
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