Take a Closer Look by Arasse, Daniel

Take a Closer Look

What paintings can teach us--if we can really learn to see them What happens when we look...
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Author: Daniel Arasse
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Take a Closer Look by Arasse, Daniel

Take a Closer Look

$150.80

Take a Closer Look

$150.80
Author: Daniel Arasse
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 time, cleverly and gracefully guides readers through a variety of adventures in seeing, from Velázquez to Titian, Bruegel to Tintoretto.

By demonstrating that we don't really see what these paintings are trying to show us, Arasse makes it clear that we need to take a closer look. In chapters that each have a different form, including a letter, an interview, and an animated conversation with a colleague, the book explores how these pictures teach us about ways of seeing across the centuries. In the process, Arasse freshly lays bare the dazzling power of painting. Fast-paced and full of humor as well as insight, this is a book for anyone who cares about really looking at, seeing, and understanding paintings.

Author: Daniel Arasse
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/08/2013
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.92w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780691151540


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2014

About the Author
Daniel Arasse (1944-2003) was professor of art history at the Sorbonne, director of the French Institute in Florence, and director of studies at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His many books include Vermeer (Princeton), Botticelli, and Anselm Kiefer.

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