How to Understand a Painting: Decoding Symbols in Art

by Françoise Barbe-Gall

Book Overview

Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Fran? oise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have been used and developed in art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, with sixty-eight wonderfully vivid examples.

Painting has always made abundant use of forms and objects to convey abstract ideas: love, hope for eternal life, loyalty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071123213X
• ISBN13: 9780711232136
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 8.5"