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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rideal, Liz, author.     Subjects     Painting -- Appreciation.     Art criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rideal, Liz, author.       by title:      How to read art : a ...         MARC Display

How to read art : a crash course in understanding & interpreting paintings / Liz Rideal. by Rideal, Liz, author. New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, 2015. Subjects Painting -- Appreciation.   Art criticism. ISBN:  0789329166 (pbk.) 9780789329165 (pbk.) Description:  256 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  This charmingly illustrated, highly informative field guide to understanding art history is small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers. This seventh entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's great artworks. The book explains the aesthetics of schools of painting from the Renaissance masters and Impressionists to the Cubists and Modernists. It enables readers to develop swiftly an understanding of the vocabulary of painting and to discover how to look at diverse paintings in detail. In the first part of the book, the author reveals how to read paintings by considering five key areas: shape and support, style and medium, compositional devices, genre, and the meaning of recurring motifs and symbols. The second part explores fifty paintings through extracted details, accompanied by insightful commentary, training the reader and viewer to understand context and discover meaning within art.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 750.11 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 750.11 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 750.11 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 750.11 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Nonfiction 750.11 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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