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<p><P>Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look." <br><br>This handy guide to the visual arts is designed to provide a comprehensive view of art, moving from the analytic study of specific works to a consideration of broad principles and technical matters. Forty-four carefully selected illustrations afford an excellent sampling of the wide range of experience awaiting the explorer. <br><br>The second edition of <i>Learning to Look</i> includes a new chapter on twentieth-century art. Taylor's thoughtful discussion of pure forms and our responses to them gives the reader a few useful starting points for looking at art that does not reproduce nature and for understanding the distance between contemporary figurative art and reality.</p>

Author

Taylor, Joshua Charles, 1917-

Publisher

Chicago UP; University of Chicago Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226791524

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

3.44 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14