Understanding Art
ISBN: 9780495569091 | 0495569097
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 12/16/2008
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A market leading, cutting edge text for the art appreciation course, UNDERSTANDING ART combines its strong coverage of art history, with comprehensive coverage and presentation of the visual elements, principles of design, and media to provide a well-balanced discussion of the relevance and beauty of art and the media and methods used to produce art.
| Introduction | |
| What is Art? | |
| The Language of Art | |
| Visual Elements of Art | |
| Principles of Design | |
| Style, Form and Content | |
| Two-Dimensional Media | |
| Drawing | |
| Painting | |
| Printmaking | |
| Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts | |
| Three-Dimensional Media | ... MORE |
| Sculpture | |
| Site-Specific Art | |
| Architecture | |
| Craft and Design | |
| Art Through the Ages | |
| The Art of the Ancients | |
| Classical Art: Greece and Rome | |
| Christian Art: From Catacombs to Cathedral | |
| The Renaissance | |
| The Age of Baroque | |
| Art beyond the West | |
| Art in Modern and Postmodern Times | |
| Modern Art | |
| The Twentieth Century: The Early Years | |
| The Twentieth Century: Post-War to Post-Modern | |
| Art in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective | |
| Glossary | |
| Index Photo Credits | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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