Books and learning
Teaching yourself art history online, one week at a time
Free collection websites, museum courses, structured reading and a weekly looking habit: a practical plan for teaching yourself art history online at home.
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Ottilie Ellwood
Ottilie Ellwood writes about looking slowly, art history and the books worth keeping on the shelf. She lives in Hobart and reads exhibition catalogues the way other people read novels.
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Books and learning
Art books on Australian painting worth keeping on the shelf
Survey histories, gallery catalogues and monographs on Australian painting: which books to start with, how to judge a catalogue, and where to find them cheaply.
Looking closely
How to look at a painting slowly
A simple, unhurried method for spending ten to twenty minutes with one painting, from first impressions to the label, with a worked example to try.