Seeing Like an Artist
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Seeing Like an Artist

What Artists See in the Art of Others

Lincoln Perry

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Seeing Like an Artist

What Artists See in the Art of Others

Lincoln Perry

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About This Book

"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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Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Year
2022
ISBN
9781567927009
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Teaching Art

Table of contents

  1. Praise for Seeing Like an Artist
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Editor’s Note
  7. An Artist Goes into a Museum: An Introduction
  8. Summoning Francis: A Memoir of Sorts About Being Inspired
  9. A Grand Tour: How a Trip to Europe Can Change Everything
  10. An Epiphany in Munich: Rethinking Old Assumptions
  11. Gleaning the Patrimony: A Side Trip to an Alternate Tradition
  12. Past as Present: Art, as Fresh as the Day It Was Done
  13. Big Tom and Little Tom: Masaccio and Masolino, Realism and Fantasy
  14. Reading Paintings: Clarifying Pictorial Space
  15. Format and Fate: How You Frame the Issue
  16. Human Scale: Big Fish in a Little Pond, and Vice Versa
  17. Busted, or Very Like a Whale: The Poetics of Damage
  18. Only Connect: On Seeing Sculpture and the Urge to Touch It
  19. Making as Metaphor: The Sculpture of Hildebrand and Rodin, Charkow, and Neri
  20. Sex and Subtext: I Hate to Say What It Looks Like, But . . .
  21. Multiplicity: Can One Image Always Tell the Whole Story?
  22. You Had to Be There: The Necessity (and Joy) of Travel
  23. Illustrations
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. About the Author