LOOKING AT PICTURES

Looking at pictures can be a delightful, exciting or moving experience, but some pictures and these are often the most rewarding require some explanation before they can be fully understood. Delving into the origins, designs and themes of over 100 pictures from different periods and places, this book illuminates the art of looking at and talking about pictures. Woodford shows how you can read a picture by examining the formal and stylistic devices used by an artist, and explores popular themes and subject matters, and the relations...[Leer más]