How to Enjoy Art
A Guide for Everyone
Published on 28. September 2021
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-300-25762-5 (ISBN)
Description
An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate art, instead How to Enjoy Art focuses on experience and pleasure, demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art. Examples from around the world and throughout art history-from works by Fra Angelico and Berthe Morisot to Kazuo Shiraga and Kara Walker-are used to demonstrate how a handful of core strategies and skills can help enhance the experience of viewing art works. With these skills, anyone can encounter any work of art-regardless of media, artist or period-and find some resonance with their own experiences. How to Enjoy Art encourages us to rediscover the fundamental pleasure in viewing art.
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate art, instead How to Enjoy Art focuses on experience and pleasure, demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art. Examples from around the world and throughout art history-from works by Fra Angelico and Berthe Morisot to Kazuo Shiraga and Kara Walker-are used to demonstrate how a handful of core strategies and skills can help enhance the experience of viewing art works. With these skills, anyone can encounter any work of art-regardless of media, artist or period-and find some resonance with their own experiences. How to Enjoy Art encourages us to rediscover the fundamental pleasure in viewing art.
Reviews / Votes
"Lively and concisely written. . . . Street offers a short course in how to look more slowly-in training yourself to take the time to explore what a work of art can offer, rather than making do with a (possibly) unfulfilling glance. . . . If all that sounds a bit like exhibition-going for beginners, Street swiftly and elegantly dispossesses the reader of such a view."-Chris Sharratt, Art QuarterlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
461 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-25762-5 (9780300257625)
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Person
Ben Street is an art historian and writer. He has worked as an art history lecturer and educator at a wide variety of institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Tate and The National Gallery, London. He is author of a number of books on art, for both children and adult audiences.