Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
4,357-word summary · 19 min read
Tag: art
8 books with this tag.
Origin
Robert Langdon chases Edmond Kirsch's lost discovery through Bilbao and Barcelona to answer where we come from and where we are going.
2,604-word summary · 12 min read
I'll Give You the Sun
Twins Noah and Jude split after their mother's death, bound by art, guilt and first love.
2,260-word summary · 10 min read
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Edwards teaches seeing edges spaces to draw via right brain exercises.
2,229-word summary · 10 min read
Confess
A young mother fighting to see her son takes a job with a Dallas artist who turns anonymous confessions into paintings.
2,733-word summary · 12 min read
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A maid in Vermeer's Delft household is drawn into the painter's world and into his most famous canvas.
1,973-word summary · 9 min read
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Addie trades her soul for freedom in 1714 France and lives forgotten for 300 years, until a Brooklyn bookseller remembers her name.
3,480-word summary · 15 min read
The Goldfinch
Theo Decker steals a Dutch painting after a museum blast kills his mother, then drifts through guilt and crime.
3,924-word summary · 17 min read