Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others

Learn to see art as an artist does. As the mysteries of techniques and styles are revealed, viewing paintings and sculptures becomes a more powerfully enriching experience that will stay in your mind long after you've left a museum.

A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In eleven essays-each framed around a specific theme-he provides new ways of seeing and appreciating art.

Perry is a disarmingly charming tour guide to museum...