{"product_id":"9781918271331","title":"Attending To","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcross thirty-six paintings – from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century – Tom Palin offers a series of closely observed encounters in which meaning emerges through the interrelation of pictorial structure and the material conditions of painting.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttending To bears witness to sustained acts of looking. Across thirty-six paintings – from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century – Tom Palin offers a series of closely observed encounters in which meaning emerges through the interrelation of pictorial structure and the material conditions of painting. Each chapter holds a single work in extended attention, combining formal and iconographic analysis with insights drawn from the author’s own studio practice. Rather than a survey or a linear history of art, the book proposes a different tempo of engagement: slow, deliberate and cumulative. From Giotto to Seurat, these essays explore what it means to dwell with a painting, considering how works of art organise perception, thought and memory. The result is part critical study, part painter’s meditation on the experience of seeing and of having seen.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":60048388555038,"sku":"9781918271331","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781918271331","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}