has been added to your Cart. Michael O’Toole is an emeritus professor of communication at Murdoch University, Perth.

has been added to your Cart. He worked with the Australian ‘discourse analysis’ school led by Michael Halliday and helped to develop their work in the areas of literary stylistics, general semiotics, and art and aesthetics.

Michael O’Toole is an emeritus professor of communication at Murdoch University, Perth.

This book explores the "grammar" of the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, proposing that as viewers we simultaneously read three different kinds of meaning in them: what is represented (Representational meaning) how it engages us (Modal meaning) how it is composed (Compositional meaning). Occasionally a book comes along which takes over your whole field of attention and resets the way you look at some aspect of experience.

Occasionally a book comes along which takes over your whole field of attention and resets the way you look at some aspect of experience. It opened up the world of painting, architecture and sculpture, bringing out its dimensions and depth of meaning and adding significantly to my understanding- and therefore to my enjoyment- of familiar and not so familiar works of ar. . Halliday, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

Michael O’Toole is an emeritus professor of communication at Murdoch University, Perth.

The book is now accompanied by a CD, created by the author and features a virtual gallery of twenty-eight additional paintings with questions to encourage analysis and interpretation, and model answers to these questions in the book’s appendix. The CD also includes a notebook for readers to record their own observations and ideas.

My work is now displayed in hundreds of corporate and thousands of private collections around the world. Canadian Art Prints (CAP) are my publishers for limited and unlimited addition prints distributed worldwide. Articles by, "International Artists Magazine". The Vancouver Sun"etc. Studied at,"The Prado" Madrid Spain, Federation of Canadian Ar. Now have Signature status). Have instructed and given workshops all over North America and Europe for 20 years.

Michael O'Toole (born 1972) is an Irish classical guitarist. He studied for many years with John Feeley at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin and also spent two years studying with the renowned Cuban virtuoso Ricardo Iznaola in Denver, Colorado. He has since established himself as one of Ireland's leading guitarists, giving many memorable recitals and becoming Artistic Director of both The Waltons International Guitar Festival and the "Chord" Ennis International Music Festival