How to look at a painting /
Presents advice on ways to examine a painting to gain a better understanding of its meaning.
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London :
Frances Lincoln Limited,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Observing a simple reality:
- Discovering the essence of a character
- Confronting the truth of emotions
- Guessing what remains unsaid
- Feeling a sense of deja vu
- Believing you are at the cinema
- Recognizing the substance of the world;
- Contemplating the sublime:
- Taking part at an important event
- Flirting with the idea of perfection
- Feeling time stand still
- Accepting that we cannot see everything
- A moment's grace
- Witnessing the birth of light;
- Analyzing distortions to the visible world:
- Imagining the point of eternity
- Discerning the troubles of history
- Sensing a metamorphosis
- Glimpsing primitive nature
- Adapting to circumstances
- Abandoning the evidence;
- Taking account of what appears confusing:
- Making allowances for mystery
- Taking time to be wrong
- Appreciating a way of thinking
- Measuring the difficulty of seeing
- Welcoming a new freedom
- Feeling our way to reality;
- Getting over the shock of our first impression:
- Considering the function of a painting
- Seizing the grandeur of a ritual
- Passing through the mirror
- Understanding the logic of a vision
- Seeing life unravel
- Gaining access to the opposite side of things;
- Abandoning ourselves to the gentleness of a painting:
- Abandoning our fear of shadows
- Seeing history in the making
- Forgetting the weight of the world
- Enjoying a lasting peace
- Welcoming the ephemeral
- Learning to wait.
