Picture Interpretation Books

D'Harcourt Claire 
edizioni Princeton Architectural Pr collana Princeton Architectural Pr (Hardcover), 2017

Woodford Susan 
edizioni Cambridge Univ Pr collana Cambridge Univ Pr (Paperback), 1992

Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended both to increase pleasure and stimulate thought and...

D'Harcourt Claire 
edizioni Chronicle Books Llc collana Chronicle Books Llc (Hardcover), 2006

Invites the reader to search for tiny details hidden in famous works of art, providing information about each painting, the techniques used to create them, and how the artists and movements helped art to develop through the ages. Answer key features lift-up flaps.Invites the reader to search for tiny details hidden...

Hecht Heiko (EDT)  Schwartz Robert (EDT)  Atherton Margaret (EDT) 
edizioni Bradford Books collana Bradford Books (Hardcover), 2003

The last half of the twentieth century witnessed dramatic changes in the theory of vision. In particular, the "eye-as-camera" metaphor that had long dominated the field no longer seemed tenable. Somewhat surprisingly, however, the metaphor has maintained its appeal in the...

Elkins James 
edizioni Routledge collana Routledge (Paperback), 1999

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to possess: the affinity...