Picture This: How Pictures WorkRevised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition (-) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452151997 ISBN 13: 9781452151991

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2016

Synopsis

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary.

Bang's powerful ideas remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius: Explore the intricate and thought provoking ideas that Bang brings to Picture This including thoughts about 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 story. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? She asks the right questions to get your wheels turning while the illustrations and thoughtful designs bring the words to life.

• Explores the mix of geometrical abstraction and emotional expressions, plus how a few clear principles can be used to build powerful visual statements.
• Encourages you to answer the question, "How does the structure of a picture—or any visual art form—affect our emotional response?"
• Includes powerful imagery and beautiful illustrations to help readers feel connected to the text.

First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.

Molly Bang has authored and illustrated more than three dozen books and has won three Caldecott Honors, a Kate Greenaway Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Award, among other accolades, in her long career as a writer and artist.

Picture This makes an imaginative and inspiring gift for any artist or loved one who is interested in design.

About this title

About the Author:

Molly Bang has authored and illustrated more than three dozen books and has won three Caldecott Honors, a Kate Greenaway Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Award, among other accolades, in her long career as a writer and artist.

Review:

"Molly Bang's Picture This remains a delightful excursion through the landscape of visual literacy. Students of art and design will benefit from its crisp examples and insightful analysis of form in visual communication while enjoying the book's elegant synthesis of type and image." -Robert Brinkerhoff, Head of the Illustration Department, Rhode Island School of Design

"Will delight any artist, art aficionado or reader of picture books."--Shelf Awareness for Readers

"What a pleasure to be given a front row seat as Molly Bang explores and interprets the power and subtleties of shape, line, space, and even color. This is no dreary academic lesson in design. It is an accessible and engaging glimpse of a process of discovery as it unfolds in real time. For anyone wishing to expand their visual literacy skills, I can't think of a better way to start than with Picture This." -David Macaulay, author/illustrator of The Way Things Work, Cathedral, and Black and White

"Retooled and redesigned for a new generation, Picture This remains a peerless handbook and guide for anyone who wishes to make picture books or understand how visual narrative works." -Leonard S. Marcus, children's book historian and critic

"Picture This is the Strunk and White of visual literacy. A must for anyone interested in reading and understanding images."--Brian Selznick, Caldecott Medal winner for The Invention of Hugo Cabret

"A must-have book for anyone wanting to learn or teach about art elements and principles and their connections to (picture book) art and visual perception."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Imaginative and impressive."-Noam Chomsky

"For the past twenty-five years I have had the privilege of seeing Picture This work with a wide range of audiences, from middle school art classes to children's literature graduate students learning about picture books. This edition will allow a new generation to benefit from Bang's explorations, culminating in her clearly-stated insights about what makes pictures work."--Lolly Robinson, Creative Director, The Horn Book

"Brilliant, insightful, and accessible."--Print Magazine's Best Design Books of the Year

"A must-have for picture book aficionados."-School Library Journal, starred review

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1452151997
• ISBN 13: 9781452151991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• Illustrator: Bang Molly