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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise, revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary, that helps provide clarity to the timeless question "what is art?"

Designed to widen the reader's perception of the world through the basic principles of design, this book begins with the story of Little Red Riding Hood, using triangles and rectangles and circles to tell the tale, and then guides the reader through a basic vocabulary of perception... Read Full Overview

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas--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... Read Full Overview