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1. Learning to Look at Sculpture

   By Mary Acton

   This new book from Mary Acton is a perfect companion volume to Learning to look at Paintings and Learning to look at Modern Art. Like them it is primarily about looking – and particularly about the differences in the experience of looking at three-dimensional art. Covering all periods of Western...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Learning to Look at Paintings

   2nd Edition

   By Mary Acton

   Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are...

   Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge
3. 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...

   Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge
4. Learning to Look at Paintings

   By Mary Acton

   This is a critique of works of art dating from the early fifteenth century through to modern installations. Suggesting a series of questions to ask when looking at a painting this will help develop a critical understanding of art....

   Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge