Chapter 1: ART AND APPRECIATION

WHAT IS ART?

EXPERIENCING ART    

Appreciation 1: Tim Paul, Wolf

THE POWER OF ART

Appreciation 2: Hale Woodruff, Interchange and Dissipation from The Art of the Negro mural series

CONTENT: A BRIDGE CONNECTING FORM, SUBJECT, AND CONTEXT

WAYS OF SEEING: FORMALISM AND CONTEXTUALISM

TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF ART

VAN GOGH'S NIGHT CAFE: AN APPRECIATION

Chapter 2: THE LANGUAGE OF FORM: THE VISUAL ELEMENTS

THE VISUAL ELEMENTS    

Line    

Shape    

Appreciation 3: Bill Reid, The Spirit of the Haida Gwaii     

Appreciation 4: Henri Matisse, The Flowing Hair     

Space    

Texture    

Light and Color

TWO WORKS OF ART: FOCUS ON VISUAL ELEMENTS

Interaction Box: Learning the Visual Elements

Chapter 3: THE LANGUAGE OF FORM: COMPOSITION TO STYLE

THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD COMPOSITION

THE PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION        

Unity    

Variety    

Balance

Emphasis    

Rhythm, Repetition, and Pattern    

Proportion and Scale    

Appreciation 5: The Art of Album Cover Design

FORM AND CONTENT: AN INSEPARABLE PAIR

FROM FORM AND CONTENT TO STYLE

STYLE AND MEANING IN THE EVERYDAY WORLD

Interaction Box: Form, Content, and Style in Popular Art        

Fashion: Case Studies in Style    

Appreciation 6: The French Revolution in Fashion    

Chapter 4: THE INFLUENCE OF CONTEXT: DIFFERENT WAYS OF SEEING

WAYS OF SEEING

WAYS OF SEEING NATURE ACROSS TIME: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE    

Interaction Box: Responding Contextually: Art as Social and Cultural Creation

VIEWING NATURE ACROSS SOCIAL STRATA: THE PICTURESQUE AS AN UPPER-CLASS WAY OF SEEING

SEEING NATURE ACROSS CULTURES: FAR EASTERN AND WESTERN WAYS OF SEEING    

Appreciation 7: Hokusai's View from Kajikazawa in Kai Province     

Appreciation 8: Ansel Adams: Photographer of the Landscape

SEEING NATURE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: SUBLIMITY AND TECHNOLOGY    

PART TWO: THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARTS: FORM AND CONTEXT

Chapter 5: DRAWING AND PAINTING: FOUNDATIONS OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARTS

THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARTS: A DEFINITION

DRAWING AND PAINTING: FUNDAMENTAL MEDIA     

Dry and Wet Media

Interaction Box: Appreciating Different Media

Media and Artistic Intent    

DRAWING: FOCUS ON LINE, SHAPE, AND VALUE

APPRECIATING DRAWINGS: FORM AND CONTEXT

PAINTING: FOCUS ON COLOR AND TEXTURE    

Appreciation 9: In the Tradition of the Chinese Masters: I-Hsiung Ju Paints a Picture

TWO PAINTINGS: FORM AND CONTEXT

DRAWING AND PAINTING: DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS AND STATUS    

Appreciation 10: An Interview with Peter Ratner on Computer-Generated Art    

Chapter 6: GRAPHIC ART AND DESIGN: FROM PRINT MEDIA TO MASS MEDIA

GRAPHIC ART AND DESIGN: DIFFERENCES AND COMMONALITIES

THE GRAPHIC ART OF PRINTMAKING: A BRIEF HISTORY    

Technique Boxes 6-A and 6-B: Woodblock Printing and Engraving    

Technique Box 6-C: Etching        

Technique Box 6-D: Aquatint    

Appreciation 11: Karyn Young's The Making of a Print

THE MODERN PERIOD: THE RISE OF THE MASS MEDIA    

Technique Box 6-E: Lithography    

Appreciation 12: Kthe Kollwitz: Hamm        

Technique Box 6-F: Screenprinting    

THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN ADVERTISING

TOWARD A CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ADVERTISING DESIGN

SOCIETY'S MIRROR

Interaction Box: How Are Men and Women Represented in Graphic Art and Design?

Chapter 7: PHOTOGRAPHY AND MOVING PICTURES: FROM PREHISTORY TO THE PRESENT

PHOTOGRAPHY'S HISTORICAL BACKGROUND    

Technique Box 7-A: Basic Photography: Camera, Film, and Development

PHOTOGRAPHY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY        

Appreciation 13: Liang Shitai, Chinese Court Photographer from Hong Kong    

PHOTOGRAPHY AND MOVING PICTURES: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

PHOTOGRAPHY, MOVING PICTURES, AND ART: SELECTIVE VIEWS    

Expressionism: Unleashing the Emotions     

Surrealism: Visualizing Dreams and Fantasy    

Social Realism: The Documentation of Society    

Formalism: Emphasis on Visual Form    

Appreciation 14: Who Made Citizen Kane?     

Interaction Box 7: Approaches to Taking Pictures: Selective Views

NEW MEDIA AND MASS MEDIA: RELATIONSHIPS IN FORM AND CONTENT

Technique Box 7-B: Digital Image Creation

THE CHANGING MEANING OF ART IN AN AGE OF MASS MEDIA

PART THREE: THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARTS: FORM AND CONTEXT

Chapter 8: SCULPTURE: A FOUNDATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARTS

SCULPTURE: FOCUS ON SHAPE, SURFACE QUALITY, AND SPACE

FUNCTIONS OF SCULPTURE

ADDITIVE METHODS OF SCULPTING    

Appreciation 15: The Enigmatic, Wondrous Art of James Hampton

SUBTRACTIVE METHODS OF SCULPTING    

Appreciation 16: Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture

EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF SCULPTURE: EARTHWORKS

Interaction Box 8: Making a Sculpture

Chapter 9: CRAFTS AND PRODUCT DESIGN

CRAFT AND FINE ART    

Appreciation 17: An Illinois Farm Quilt Top    

Appreciation 18: An Anasazi "Kayenta Olla"    

CRAFT AND PRODUCT DESIGN IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

MODERN DESIGN AND MASS PRODUCTION: INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: NEW DESIGN DIRECTIONS

CRITICAL RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIALLY BASED DESIGN

APPLIED ART IN THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT

Interaction Box: Art, Craft, and Product Design: A Breakdown of Boundaries?

Chapter 10: ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: FORM AND CONTEXT

ARCHITECTURE: A SOCIAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ART

ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS

ARCHITECTURAL METHODS, FORMS, AND MEANINGS    

Appreciation 19: The Bank of China Tower in Context

MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: SELECTED VIEWS    

Appreciation 20: The Architecture of Oluwole Olumuyiwa

POSTMODERNISM: TOWARD A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF ARCHITECTURE

BUILDING COMMUNITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY    

Interaction Box: "Adopt a Building"

PART FOUR: A HISTORY OF ART

Chapter 11: FROM THE PALEOLITHIC ERA TO THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC ERA    

Technique Box 11-A: Cave Painting

THE MESOLITHIC ERA

THE NEOLITHIC ERA    

Appreciation 21: Worldwide Megaliths

MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION    

Appreciation 22: Teotihuacn: Birthplace of the Gods

Technique Box 11-B: Metalworking    

Interaction Box: Compare and Contrast

Chapter 12: THE ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT, GREECE, AND ROME

EGYPT AND ITS ART    

Appreciation 23: The Egyptian Artist-Craftsman

GREEK CIVILIZATION AND ITS ART    

Appreciation 24: Exekias, Achilles Killing Penthesilea

ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE    

Interaction Box: Formalist Art History in Action

Chapter 13: EARLY CHRISTIAN, MEDIEVAL, AND ISLAMIC ART    

THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY AND CHRISTIAN ART         

Appreciation 25: The Good Shepherd, Ceiling Fresco, Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus, Early 4th Century C.E.    

Interaction Box: Taking a Marxist Approach to Art History

ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE; FROM WEST TO EAST            

Appreciation 26: Persian Manuscript Painting of the School of Herat

Chapter 14: RENAISSANCE TO BAROQUE ART IN A WORLDWIDE CONTEXT

From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance    

Technique Box 14-A: Fresco

RENAISSANCE ART: THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

RENAISSANCE ART: THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

THE BIRTH OF FINE ART AND THE ARTIST

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ARTISTIC DIRECTIONS

COUNTER-REFORMATION TO BAROQUE ART    

Interaction Box: Taking a Psychoanalytic Approach to Art

Appreciation 27: Xochipilli: Aztec God of the Spring

Appreciation 28: The Baroque Culture of the New World

Chapter 15: NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS: BAROQUE TO NEOCLASSICAL, FINE ART TO PRACTICAL ART

BAROQUE CLASSICISM AND CLASSICAL ART EDUCATION

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN PROTESTANT HOLLAND    

Appreciation 29: Judith Leysters The Proposition

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART: BAROQUE TO ROCOCO TO NEOCLASSICAL

NEOCLASSICISM, DEMOCRACY, AND REVOLUTION    

Appreciation 30: Elisabeth Vige-LeBrun, Marie Antoinette and Her Children     

Interaction Box: Taking a Feminist Art Historical Approach

IN THE SHADOW OF THE FINE ARTS: THE MINOR ARTS

Chapter 16: ART IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ROMANTICISM TO POSTIMPRESSIONISM

INTO THE MODERN ERA

ROMANTICISM

CLASSICAL ART OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY

ROMANTIC ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND DESIGN IN AN INDUSTRIAL AGE

FROM ROMANTICISM TO NATURALISM    

Appreciation 31: Rosa Bonheur: The Horse Fair

IMPRESSIONISM

POST-IMPRESSIONISM    

Appreciation 32: Oceanic Art and Gauguin: Influences and Issues     

Interaction Box: Raising Cross-cultural Issues in the Arts

Chapter 17: EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART

EXPRESSIONISM: UNLEASHING THE EMOTIONS

FORMALIST ABSTRACTION: TOWARD AN ART OF SIGNIFICANT FORM    

Appreciation 33: Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon and African Art    

ART OF THE IRRATIONAL: DADA AND SURREALISM    

Appreciation 34: Frida Kahlo: The Broken Column     

Interaction Box: Create Expressionist, Abstract Formalist, and Surrealist

Versions of the Same Subject

Chapter 18: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART: REALISM TO ABSTRACTION

ART IN AMERICA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY

THE GROWTH OF AN ORIGINAL AMERICAN ART: HOPPER TO OKEEFFE    

Appreciation 35: Romare Beardens Patchwork Quilt     

Appreciation 36: Georgia OKeeffes Cow Skull with Calico Roses

THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN ART WORLD

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM: THE FIRST GENERATION PIONEERS    

Interaction Box: Creating an Abstract Expressionist Artwork

FROM ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM TO FORMALIST ABSTRACTION    

Chapter 19: THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A MULTIPLICITY OF DIRECTIONS

NEW SUBJECTS, MEDIA, AND ART FORMS

VARIETIES OF NEW REALISM

Interaction Box: Role-Playing an Artist: First-Person Narratives

THE RETURN OF FIGURATIVE ART    

Appreciation 37: The Abstract Painting of Sylvia Lark    

Appreciation 38: The Ordinary. Extraordinary Art of May Stevens    

Chapter 20: BEYOND PAINTING AND SCULPTURE: EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF ART

A HOST OF NEW ART FORMS

BEYOND THE MUSEUMS WALLS    

Appreciation 39: Creating Art of Value in Public Places: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

ART APPRECIATION IN A PERIOD OF PLURALISM

Appreciation 40: Franklin Furnace: Re-Imaging Performance Art and the Public

APPENDIX: WRITING ABOUT ART     

GLOSSARY

NOTES

INDEX    

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