Crash course in art [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION This IS a book to be taken with you whenever you have a chance to look at paintings - for example, when you are visiting art galleries, museums and churches, The book has been designed so that you can discover, while you are still in front of a particular painting, the information you need to gain a fuller appreciation and understanding of it. You will find this is true if you are one of the many who enjoy paintings, but have no expert knowledge. You will also find it to be true if you are much more than averagely well informed, for a great deal of expertise is concealed by the disarmingly simple way in which, in this short book, the art of centuries is presented, You can of course read the book from cover to cover - but it is as a ready guide of a kind not produced before, bringingto countless people a new depth of pleasure, that the book wWl serve its main purpose, A unique feature of the book is its Compendium of Artists (see page 150) and the way you can put this to practical use. All you need to know is the name of the artist of any work you happen to be interested in. The book will lead you on from there, giving you just the sort of help you might receive if you had with you an expert on painting who could explain things clearly.