Places

This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. This book looks at shapes to see how they are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art. Notes at the back of each book provide brief background information that adults will find useful when talking with children about the images reproduced in these books.

The places that inhabit this book are from cities and from the country, places for work and play, places familiar and exotic. Included are paintings, drawings and photographs by such artists as Pierre Bonnard, Edward Hopper, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt and Piet Mondrian.