Living With Art
ISBN: 9780073379203 | 0073379204
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 10/13/2009
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Analyze, Understand, AppreciateLiving with Artprovides the tools to help students think critically about the visual arts. Using a wealth of examples, the first half of the text examines the nature, vocabulary, and elements of art, offering a foundation for students to learn toanalyze arteffectively. The latter half sets out a brief but comprehensive history of art, leading students tounderstand artwithin the context of its time and place of origin. High quality images from a wide range of periods and cultures bring the art to life, and topical ... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Living with Art | |
| What Is Art? | |
| Themes of Art | |
| The Vocabulary of Art | |
| The Visual Elements | |
| Principles of Design | |
| Two-Dimensional Media | |
| Drawing | |
| Painting | |
| Prints | |
| Camera and Computer Arts | |
| ... MORE | |
| Three-Dimensional Media | |
| Sculpture and Installation | |
| Arts of Ritual and Daily Life | |
| Architecture | |
| Arts in Time | |
| Ancient Mediterranean Worlds | |
| Christianity and the Formation of Europe | |
| The Renaissance | |
| The 17th and 18th Centuries | |
| Arts of Islam and of Africa | |
| Arts of East Asia: India, China, and Japan | |
| Arts of the Pacific and the Americas | |
| The Modern World: 1800-1945 | |
| From Modern to Postmodern | |
| Opening Up to the World | |
| Pronunciation Guide | |
| Suggested Readings | |
| Notes to the Text | |
| Glossary | |
| Photographic Credits | |
| Index | |
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