Exploring the origins, designs and themes of over one hundred pictures from different periods and places, Susan Woodford artfully expands our appreciation of pictures. Woodford's riveting. prose compares different artistic approaches, questions assumptions and introduces us to a wide range of stimulating ideas. Whether looking at a Japanese woodcut, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper or Picasso's Guernica, Looking at Pictures develops our eye as well as our confidence to analyse pictures.
