Learning to Look

Velazquez, Fra Angelico, Canaletto, Pollock
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9805-2
Verlag: James Clarke & Co Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 718 g

Reihe: Slow Looking

Learning to Look, Book One of Robert Cummings’ new series Slow Looking, takes you on a journey dedicated to helping you explore art on your own terms.

Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the pleasures of looking and aesthetic experience, and in so doing encourages you to explore art through your own eyes. He takes you to Madrid to explore Velázquez's Las Meninas, travels with you to Cortona in Tuscany to look at a Fra Angelico altarpiece, takes you to St Petersburg to immerse yourself in Canaletto's Venice, and examines with you the minute details of a Jackson Pollock in New York. You will have your eyes truly opened by this artistic odyssey with Robert as your fellow traveller.

With illustrations by the artist Gino Ballantyne, Slow Looking - Book One is the start of an eye-opening adventure. In Book Two - Continuing to Look Robert and Gino continue the journey by casting fresh eyes on the Mona Lisa and paintings by Brueghel, Matisse, Turner, Constable, Poussin and Manet. Book Three - Seeing is Believing concludes with Rembrandt, Picasso, Rubens, Degas, Sir Luke Fildes and Bridget Riley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cumming, Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ballantyne, Gino

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Foreword

Early Years
First tastes of aesthetic experience
Learning to look

The Paintings
Introduction
Velázquez Las Meninas (Madrid, Prado)
Fra Angelico The Cortona Altarpiece (Cortona, Museo Diocesano)
Canaletto The Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice (St Petersburg, Hermitage)
Jackson Pollock One: Number 31, 1950 (New York, MoMA)

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Ballantyne, Gino
GINO BALLANTYNE a Scottish artist born in Malta, he studied at Glasgow School of Art. His work focuses on the human condition to compel understanding of both humanity and civilisation, exploring narratives of the ordinary and the terrible. Gino has exhibited nationally and internationally, Gino and Robert have worked closely together for many years.