Looking At Paintings A Guide To Technical Terms Revised Edition

Author : Tiarna Doherty
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892369728
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Paintings written by Tiarna Doherty and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated, here is a concise and authoritative guide to the technical terms most commonly used in painting. What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These are just some 100+ terms that are explained and illustrated in this authoritative volume.

Author : Dawson William Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Paintings written by Dawson William Carr and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These terms--and more than 100 others--are explained and illustrated in Looking at Paintings. It presents concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most often countered by museum-goers. With illustrations, all in color, that have been specially chosen from the masterpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and other collections, this book will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the art of painting.

Author : Gordon Baldwin
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 089236971X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Photographs written by Gordon Baldwin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins at the end of the 1830s, photography has evolved both aesthetically and technologically. This guide explains the technical terms used in photography, and offers an account of the dramatic rise of digital photography. It is suitable for those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the art of photography.

Author : Gordon Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714117201
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Photographs written by Gordon Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains and illustrates photographic terms. The book sets out and defines the vocabulary of photography from its earliest processes through to the age of the analogue camera.

Author : Michelle Brown
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066110
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts written by Michelle Brown and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, nomenclature, and styles used in the making of these precious books. Updated to reflect current research and technologies, this beautifully illustrated guide includes images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond. Concise, readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered in manuscript studies make this portable volume an essential resource for students, scholars, and readers who wish a deeper understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts and medieval book production.

Author : Paul Goldman
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368716
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Prints, Drawings and Watercolours written by Paul Goldman and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the terms applied by art historians and curators to describe prints, drawings, and watercolors are not readily understood by the majority of exhibition visitors and art enthusiasts. These terms can also be difficult to find in reference books. This publication, which is part of the popular Looking At series of art glossaries, defines and illustrates in one portable volume the most commonly used technical terms related to these three media. This handy reference guide features over one hundred entries--alphabetically arranged from aquatint to wood engraving--that concisely explain the processes and materials utilized in creating prints, drawings, and watercolors. This edition, revised from a book originally published in 1989, has been updated with additional color illustrations and new entries on digital printmaking and copies and fakes. It is richly illustrated with objects from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum.

Author : Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367504
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Glass written by Catherine Hess and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newest publication in the popular Looking At series deals with glass terminology. The often arcane technical terms relating to the production and decoration of glass, as well as names of special shapes of glass beakers, are defined in succinct language. Ranging from ancient Roman moldmade glass to modern pressed glass, this glossary is a handy guide for museum-goers and anyone interested in the art of glassmaking. Illustrated with samples of Roman, Renaissance, Victorian, and modern glass, as well as engravings showing glassmakers at work, the book is both a visual delight and an informative small reference work. Objects shown are from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A short bibliography rounds out the volume.

Author : Paul Goldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714116389
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours written by Paul Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the terms applied by art historians and curators to describe prints, drawings, and watercolors are not readily understood by the majority of exhibition visitors and art enthusiasts. These terms can also be difficult to find in reference books. This publication, which is part of thepopular Looking At series of art glossaries, defines and illustrates in one portable volume the most commonly used technical terms related to these three media. This handy reference guide features over one hundred entries--alphabetically arranged from aquatint to wood engraving--that concisely explain the processes and materials utilized in creating prints, drawings, and watercolors. This edition, revised from a book originally published in 1989, hasbeen updated with additional color illustrations and new entries on digital printmaking and copies and fakes. It is richly illustrated with objects from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum.

Author : Mary Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Look at Paintings written by Mary Acton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and how they relate to each other. This fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated with over 100 images by a wide range of Western European and American artists, ranging from Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Botticelli to Picasso, Matisse and Rothko, and now includes modern and contemporary artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Anselm Kiefer, Tacita Dean and Marlene Dumas. In addition, Mary Acton presents new examples highlighting the survival and revival of painting in recent years. A new introduction situates the book in the wider context of recent changes in the approach to Art History. A glossary of critical and technical terms used in the language of Art History is also included, with an updated but still selective reading list.

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232500
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image on the Edge written by Michael Camille and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.