Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton

Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton

This companion volume to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings suggests that the best way to understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different elements that make up each art work: composition, space and form, light and colour, and subject matter. Engaging and beautifully-written, this guide to art of the modern and postmodern period covers key art movements including: Expressionism Constructivism the Bauhaus Surrealism Pop Art Conceptual Art Young British Art artistic forms such as architecture and design, sculpture and installation as well as works on canvas. The book is richly illustrated with colour and black and white images by the artists, designers and architects discussed, ranging from Picasso and Matisse to Le Corbusier, Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread.

Mary Acton

was Course Director of the Undergraduate Diploma and Advanced Diploma in the History of Art at Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She continues to teach at Oxford University and works as a freelance lecturer, and Learning to Look at Paintings is based on her experience over many years as an art historian and teacher. She is the author of Learning to look at Modern Art (2004)

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ISBN 13	9780415238120
ISBN 10	0415238129
Title	Learning to Look at Modern Art
Author	Mary Acton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2004-05-27
Number of pages	360
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