Elizabeth N. (LizfromTexas) reviewed on + 8 more book reviews
From back cover: "Mary Acton shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. She describes the ingredients of composition, space, form, tone and color which make up a picture and discusses the importance of subject matter and the original function and setting of a picture to appreciating its visual meanings." She "discusses work by a wide range of Western European and Anmerican artists, from the 15th C to the present day." I found this an excellent companion for the textbook in Art History.
