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  title info:
    title: Look again
    sub title: how to experience the Old Masters
  name:
    name part: Ward, Ossian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 175 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step program acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories, from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's Ways of Seeing, but is here updated for the art world of the 21st century. Key to this book is an emphasis on ways of experiencing Old Masters, more than just looking. Just as contemporary art should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles us and envelops us, so too can the great paintings of the world be seen as immersive, captivating, even participatory experiences. Ward does not deny the specific complexities and barriers associated with looking at art from other eras. Instead, he offers readers a new formula to help illuminate this kind of art. His method not only provides the viewer with the tools to interpret a work of art, but also assumes that we hold some of this knowledge within ourselves already. In other words, everyone can share the enriching experience of Old Master paintings.
  table of contents: Art as philosophy -- Art as honesty -- Art as drama -- Art as beauty -- Art as horror -- Art as paradox -- Art as folly -- Art as vision.
  note: Ossian Ward.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Painting
    topic: Appreciation
  subject:
    topic: Painting
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Painting
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Visual perception
  classification: ND1143 .W37 2019
  classification: 750.1/1
  identifier: 9780500239674
  identifier: 0500239673
  identifier: 2018945297
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180924
    record change date: 20191021075153.0
    record identifier: in00004073869