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 programme 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...

Explores the world of art and artists, including Michelangelo, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent Van Gogh, and features do-it-yourself art projects.

Introduces the history and terminology of classical music, describing each section of the orchestra, such musical forms as the sonata, concerto, oratorios, and string quartet, instruments, music theory, and major works and composers.

"Thomas C. Fosters Reading the Silver Screen will show movie buffs, students of film, and even aspiring screenwriters and directors how to transition from merely being viewers to becoming accomplished readers of this great medium. Beginning with the grammar of film, Foster demonstrates how every art form has a grammar, a set of practices and if-then propositions that amount to rules. He goes on to explain how the language of film enables movies...

Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they are playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet or singing.

An introductory history of Western art which covers everything from ancient Egyptian decorative art to modern art, and includes Internet links for further information.

A pesar de que la teoría de la música atonal se ha desarrollado de manera ininterrumpida durante los últimos 50 años en los países anglosajones, especialmente en Estados Unidos, y de que ha producido un extenso acervo de literatura analítica, en México es aún prácticamente desconocida; de ahí que esta obra trata de contribuir a remediar dicho rezago. Además hay aspectos en que se diferencia de la mayoría de los textos anglosajones sobre...

Los lectores no deben tomar el título de este libro al pie de la letra. Su contenido está hecho de paseos por el negro y el blanco del piano y de la música, pero también por los campos íntimos de la confesión. Con una vida intensa enmarcada por el arte, por la familia, por los recorridos y estancias en el extranjero, García Renart vino adquiriendo desde niña una visión del mundo que le ha permitido, con similar maestría, mover las manos...