Take a Closer Look

by Daniel Arasse

What paintings can teach us--if we can really learn to see them

What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated in color, Daniel Arasse, one of the most brilliant art historians of our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691151547
• ISBN13: 9780691151540
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.0"