Date:2016
Author:Molly Bang
Publisher:Chronicle Books
Dimensions:10.2 x 0.5 x 9.8 inches, 152 pages

Picture This: How Pictures Work

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Selected to accompany the exhibition Give Me a Sign, on view at Cooper Hewitt from May 13, 2023 through September 2, 2024. Shop the collection →

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideasÑabout how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a storyÑremain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.


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