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How to Read Art

A crash course in understanding and interpreting paintings


  • Rizzoli
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.How to Read Art is the perfect companion for anyone interested in paintings and a book that no art lover's home should be without.

ISBN 9780789329165 | E | PB+
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Publisher Rizzoli
ISBN 9780789329165
Publication date April 2015
Edition Paperback with flaps
Dimensions mm
Illustrations 350 col.ill.
Pages 256
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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. How to Read Art is the perfect companion for anyone interested in paintings and a book that no art lover's home should be without.