{"id":768,"date":"2020-03-19T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=768"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:32:18","slug":"learning-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/learning-to-see","title":{"rendered":"Learning To See"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bruce-helander-learning-to-see-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-769\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bruce-helander-learning-to-see-cover.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bruce-helander-learning-to-see-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bruce-helander-learning-to-see-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bruce-helander-learning-to-see-cover-210x210.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Learning To See: An Artist&#8217;s View on Contemporary Artists From Artschwager To Zakanitch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>by Bruce Helander<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An entertaining and highly informative collection of writings and reviews. In it, Helander, a witty and knowledgeable guide, comments on more than 40 recent museum and gallery exhibitions from six consecutive seasons, in pieces originally commissioned by <em>Art of the Times<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"1053\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bruce-Helander-Polka-Dot-Picasso.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-790\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bruce-Helander-Polka-Dot-Picasso.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bruce-Helander-Polka-Dot-Picasso-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bruce-Helander-Polka-Dot-Picasso-681x1024.jpg 681w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bruce-Helander-Polka-Dot-Picasso-210x316.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>Polka Dots Picasso<\/em> by Bruce Helander<br> 77.25&#8243;x50&#8243;; acrylic with embellishment on canvas with printed background.<br>Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About the author:<\/em><br>Bruce Helander is an art critic, arts writer, curator, and artist whose specialty is collage and assemblage. He was a National Endowment for the Arts fellow and has been inducted into Florida Artists Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Text adapted from the author&#8217;s press materials<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong><br><em>Learning to See: An Artist&#8217;s View on Contemporary Artists from Artschwager to Zakanitch<\/em><br>by Bruce Helander<br>161 pages, hardcover<br>ISBN 978-1-884886-88-1<br>$55 US<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"StarGroup International (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/stargroupinternational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">StarGroup International<\/a>, West Palm Beach, Florida; 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase the book from Amazon <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-See-Contemporary-Artschwager-Zakanitch\/dp\/B001F3LOQU\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bruce Helander<br \/>\nStarGroup International, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bruce-helander-learning-to-see-cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}