The Worker Poet

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

James Hall

Harper & Row

New York

1979

 

 

 

"... what the ordinary traveller with an interest in art and a modicum of curiosity requires is a book which will tell him the meaning of subjects which every amateur would have recognized from the middle ages down to the late eighteenth century... If we do not know what a picture or series of pictures represents, our attention soon wanders, and our so-called 'aesthetic experience' is curtailed.

-from the introduction by Kenneth Clark