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The Art of Seeing
ISBN: 9780131175174 | 0131175173
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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For one semester courses in Art Appreciation or Introduction to Art. This best-selling exploration of traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focuses on art as seen from the artist's point of view, treating artistic techniques and introductory aesthetic principles. It is a clear, concise presentation with illustrations and a strong emphasis on the elements and media.
| Learning To See | |
| Understanding Art | |
| The Creative Impulse | |
| BOX:Maria Lewis on Suffering and Creativity | |
| Content | |
| Political Content | |
| Power and Propaganda | |
| Spiritual Purposes | |
| Inner Experiences | |
| BOX:Vincent van Gogh on Emotion and Intellect | |
| Beauty in Form | |
| Forms... MORE | |
| Two-and Three dimensional Art | |
| Degrees of Realism | |
| Fine and Applied Arts | |
| BOX:Georgia O'Keefe on ldquo;Saying What I Want To | |
| rdquo;Public and Private Art | |
| Art Issues: Censorship of Offensive Art | |
| Critical Opinion | |
| Art Issues: Race and Gender Criticism | |
| Greatness in Art | |
| Visual Elements | |
| Line | |
| Seeing Lines | |
| The World Seen: Islamic Calligraphy | |
| Implied Line | |
| Descriptive Line | |
| Expressive Qualities of Line | |
| Directional Line | |
| Shape and Form | |
| Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Form | |
| BOX:Henry Moore on Form and Space | |
| Two-Dimensional Illusion of Form Shapes | |
| BOX:Arshile Gorky on the Intensity of Art | |
| Space | |
| Three-Dimensional Art in Space | |
| Two-Dimensional Space | |
| Scale | |
| Spatial Illusion | |
| Texture | |
| Actual Texture | |
| Simulated Texture | |
| Value and Light | |
| Local and Interpretive Values | |
| Lighting | |
| Reflections | |
| Light as a Medium | |
| Color | |
| A Vocabulary of Color | |
| Natural and Applied Color | |
| Local, Atmospheric, and Interpretive Color | |
| Emotional Effects of Color | |
| Warm and Cool Colors | |
| Advancing and Receding Colors | |
| Color Combinations | |
| Interaction of Color | |
| Limited and Open Palette | |
| BOX:Josef Albers on the Complexity of Color | |
| Time | |
| Actual Movement | |
| Illusion of Movement | |
| BOX:Auguste Rodin on the Illusion of Movement | |
| The Captured Moment | |
| Change Through Time | |
| Organizing Principles of Design | |
| Repetition | |
| Variety | |
| Rhythm | |
| Balance | |
| Compositional Unity | |
| Emphasis | |
| Economy | |
| Proportion | |
| BOX:Wassily Kandinsky on Underlying Harmony | |
| Relationship to the Environment | |
| Two-Dimensional Media and Methods | |
| Drawing | |
| Approaches to Drawing | |
| Dry Media | |
| Graphite Pencil | |
| Silverpoint | |
| Charcoal | |
| Chalk | |
| Pastel Crayon | |
| Liquid Media | |
| Pen and Ink | |
| BOX:The World Seen: Chinese Landscape Paintings | |
| Brush and Ink | |
| Painting | |
| Approaches to Painting | |
| Paint Media | |
| Encaustic | |
| Leonardo da Vinci on Chiaroscuro | |
| Fresco | |
| Tempera | |
| Art Issues: Are there Limits to the Restorer's Art? Oil | |
| Art Issues: Cleaning and Restoring Paintings | |
| Watercolor | |
| Gouache | |
| Synthetics | |
| Collage | |
| The Word Seen: Tibetan Sand Paintings | |
| Mosaic | |
| Mixed Media | |
| Printmaking | |
| Printmaking Processes | |
| Relief | |
| BOX:Stephen Alcorn on the Challenge of Linocuts | |
| Intaglio | |
| Planographic | |
| Stencil | |
| Mixed Print Media | |
| Graphic Design | |
| The Graphic Designer and Visual Ideas | |
| BOX:Peter Good on the Art of Graphic Design | |
| Typography | |
| Illustration | |
| Photography, Photocopy, and Film-Making | |
| Photography | |
| BOX:Edward Weston on Photography as a Way of Seeing | |
| Photocopy and Fax Art | |
| Film | |
| Television and Video | |
| Art Issues: Mixing Art and Politics: The Films of Leni Riefenstahl | |
| Computer Graphics | |
| The Computer as a Drawing Medium | |
| The Computer as a Painting Medium | |
| The Computer in Three-Dimensional Art | |
| Video Graphics | |
| Virtual Reality | |
| The Computer as a Unique Art Medium | |
| Art in Cyberspace | |
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