"Beguiling and informative"— Wall Street Journal Learn to see art as an artist does. Discover how a painting's composition or a sculpture's spatial structure influence the experience of what you're seeing. With an artist as your guide, viewing art becomes a powerfully enriching experience that will stay in your mind long after you've left a museum. A visit to view art can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In fifteen essays—each framed around a specific theme—he provides new ways of seeing and appreciating art. Drawing heavily on examples from the European traditions of art, Perry aims to overturn assumptions and asks readers to re-think artistic prejudices while rebuilding new preferences. Included are essays on how artists "read" paintings, how scale and format influence viewers, how to engage with sculptures and murals, as well as guides to some of the great museums and churches of Europe. Seeing Like an Artist is for any artist, art-lover, or museumgoer who wants to grow their appreciation for the art of others.
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Teaching ArtTable of contents
- Praise for Seeing Like an Artist
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Editor’s Note
- An Artist Goes into a Museum: An Introduction
- Summoning Francis: A Memoir of Sorts About Being Inspired
- A Grand Tour: How a Trip to Europe Can Change Everything
- An Epiphany in Munich: Rethinking Old Assumptions
- Gleaning the Patrimony: A Side Trip to an Alternate Tradition
- Past as Present: Art, as Fresh as the Day It Was Done
- Big Tom and Little Tom: Masaccio and Masolino, Realism and Fantasy
- Reading Paintings: Clarifying Pictorial Space
- Format and Fate: How You Frame the Issue
- Human Scale: Big Fish in a Little Pond, and Vice Versa
- Busted, or Very Like a Whale: The Poetics of Damage
- Only Connect: On Seeing Sculpture and the Urge to Touch It
- Making as Metaphor: The Sculpture of Hildebrand and Rodin, Charkow, and Neri
- Sex and Subtext: I Hate to Say What It Looks Like, But . . .
- Multiplicity: Can One Image Always Tell the Whole Story?
- You Had to Be There: The Necessity (and Joy) of Travel
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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