How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone

“Ben Street is one of the greatest communicators and writers on art. [This is] an expert guide to looking at and understanding art. Beautifully put together and brilliantly written.”—Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art Without Men How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art, focusing on experience and pleasure and demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art. Examples from around the world and throughout art history are used to demonstrate how a handful of core strategies and skills can help enhance the experience of viewing art works.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Yale University Press

“Ben Street is one of the greatest communicators and writers on art. [This is] an expert guide to looking at and understanding art. Beautifully put together and brilliantly written.”—Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art Without Men

How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate art, How to Enjoy Art focuses on experience and pleasure, demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art. Examples from around the world and throughout art history—from works by Fra Angelico and Berthe Morisot to Kazuo Shiraga and Kara Walker—are used to demonstrate how a handful of core strategies and skills can help enhance the experience of viewing art works. With these skills, anyone can encounter any work of art—regardless of media, artist, or period—and find some resonance with their own experiences.

How to Enjoy Art encourages us to rediscover the fundamental pleasure in viewing art.

Weight: 258g
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300267617