description: Prospectus for HOW TO LOOK AT ART A Museum Visitor s Guide By Peggy Hazen I. Purpose and need for the Guide. Millions of individuals and groups visit art galleries and museums in thousands of cities. Thousands of college students take art appreciation classes. Hundreds of docents receive training to tour museum groups. Each of these individuals and groups represents a potential audience for this guide. This guide is for people who encounter works of art in the museum or in their everyday lives. The goal is to help users see the art with wonder and understanding of what the artist created. A. Purpose served by the For the visitors to art galleries and museums, especially those new to the experience, it provides a step-by-step guide to approaching the experience. For the college students taking art appreciation classes, the guide provides a systematic method for deconstructing and reconstructing the art they are studying in books, slides, and visits. For the docents in training, it presents a systematic way to present art to the visitors. These are three potential uses for this guide. B. The Need for the There is nothing like it. Although there are a few books like Art for Dummies that discuss understanding art, none takes a step-by-step systematic approach to the topic. This unique guide has been tested by docents and individual museum visitors, revised based on their comments, and proved extremely useful for the purposes listed above. The guide fills a void a presentation for those who wish to appreciate art more deeply, and for those who wish to teach others to appreciate art. II. Description of the Guide The guide is divided into four main sections, each with the intent of taking the user through the process of looking at art. Section I is an introduction to How to look at art, explaining to the user the approach of the guide. It distinguishes between looking up information about art, that is doing research
language: English
title: How to Look at Art, A Museum Visitor's Guide
titlecomplete: How to Look at Art, A Museum Visitor's Guide
publisher: Aardvark Publishing Co