Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces: A Guide to Looking at Art

$18.95 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

How do artists use faces, places, and inner spaces to express themselves and their world? We all know what a face looks like, but no two faces are exactly alike. In works of art, we find an endless parade of faces. They can help us discover how people from different cultures and times have seen themselves. Just like faces, places are full of variety. The word “place” can mean anything from the corner of a drawer to a neighborhood, from a kitchen to a forest, from a backyard to the moon! By looking at…