Painting Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Japonisme in Britain

   Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan

   By Ayako Ono

   Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world...

   Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
3. Surrealism and the Exotic

   By Louise Tythacott

   Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean made by wealthy aesthetes, it combines an insight into the mentality of early twentieth century collectors with...

   Published January 29th 2003 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