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For one-quarter/semester Introductory Art Appreciation courses.   Laurie Schneider Adams helps students understand that art is an integral part of everyday life. She asks students to consider how art is created and defined using the words of contemporary artists themselves. The Making and Meaning of Art teaches students that art is not only located in museums, but is also relevant to their own lives.  

Table of Contents:
PART I: CREATING AND DEFINING WORKS OF ART Chapter 1: What is Art? Brancusi v. United States Art Takes Many Forms: Variations on the Imagery of Birds and Flight Controversy and Changing Views of Art Michelangelo Manet Box: Look: Self-Portraits by Rembrandt and Picasso Censorship and the Arts 1937: Hitler¹s Exhibition of ³Degenerate Art² 1989: Mapplethorpe Goes to Cincinnati Looking at Art Glossary Chapter 2: The Creative Impulse Gods as Artists/Artists as Gods Creative Thinking and Visual Metaphor Art Inspired by Nature and the Environment Box: Look: Gerome's Pygmalion and Galatea The Natural Landscape The Urban Landscape The Psychological Landscape: Dream and Myth Glossary PART II: PURPOSES OF ART Chapter 3: Cultural Purpose of Art Portraits and Self-Portraits Commemoration and Documentation Commemoration and Religion Box: Look: Illuminating the Word of God The Healing Power of Religious Imagery Political Purposes of Art Art as Political and Social Protest The Art of Communication Glossary Chapter 4: Decorating Ourselves and Our Environment Personal Decoration Going to War Decorating Our Personal Spaces Decorating Walls and Floors Household Objects Furniture Design: Chairs and Thrones Box: Look: Utility or Art Decorating our Public Spaces Decorating our Means of Travel Glossary PART III: THE ARTIST¹S VISUAL LANGUAGE Chapter 5: The Visual Elements of Art Line Lines Used to Create Shape and Mass Lines Used to Create Light and Dark Implied Lines Lines Used to Create Emotional Expression Space One-Point Perspective Two-Point and Multiple-Point Perspective Atmospheric Perspective Isometric Perspective Absence of Perspective in Ancient Egypt Shape and Mass in Sculpture Texture Actual Texture in Sculpture Implied and Actual Texture in Painting Time Time and Motion Time and Space in Renaissance Painting Light and Color Expressive Qualities of Light and Color Symbolic Meanings of Light and Color Light as the Source of Color: The Visible Spectrum The Color Wheel Physical Properties of Color Box: Look: Van Gogh¹s Starry Night Optical Effects of Color Glossary Chapter 6: Terminology and the Principles of Design Form Representational Art Nonrepresentational Art Abstract Art Stylized Art Idealized Art Subject Matter and Content Design Unity and Variation Focus, Emphasis, and Subordination Scale and Proportion Balance Rhythm and Pattern Rhythm, Color, and Music Box: Look: Munch, The Scream Glossary Chapter 7: The Methodologies of Art History Formalism A Formal Approach to Keisei Eisen¹s Oiran on Parade Iconography and Iconology The Iconography of Giotto¹s Adoration of the Magi The Iconography of Andy Warhol¹s U.S. Dollar Sign Marxism A Marxist Reading of Daumier¹s First- and Third-Class Carriages Feminism Biography and Autobiography Bernini¹s David as Autobiography: A Biographical Reading Gauguin¹s Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ Semiotics Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction Psychoanalysis Box: Look: A Medley of Methods: Grant Wood¹s American Gothic Glossary PART IV: TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES OF ART Chapter 8: Drawing Functions of Drawing Dry Media Charcoal Silverpoint Box: Making: David Hockney on Drawing Pencil Chalk Crayon Liquid Media: Pen and Ink, Brush and Ink Box: Look: Mixed Drawing Media Glossary Chapter 9: Painting and Related Techniques Painting Media Encaustic Fresco Tempera Oil Watercolour Box: Look: De Kooning¹s Woman VI Gouache Acrylic Box: Making: Elizabeth Murray on Painting Techniques Related to Painting Collage Stained Glass Mosaic Glossary Chapter 10: Printmaking Relief Prints Woodcut Woodblock Linocut Intaglio Engraving Wood Engraving Drypoint Mezzotint Aquatint Etching Lithography Box: Look: Klimt¹s Music of 1901 Serigraphy Monotype Offset Printing Graphic Design Box: Making: Milton Glaser on Graphic Design Glossary Chapter 11: Still Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Imagery Still Photography Historical Development Portraiture Recording the City Landscape Photojournalism and Social Documentation The Decisive Moment Advertising and Fashion Box: Making: Wolfgang Tillmans on Photography New Approaches and Techniques From Still Photography to Motion Pictures Motion Pictures Beginnings D.W. Griffith Charlie Chaplin Sergei Eisenstein The ŒTalkies¹ and Color Ingmar Bergman Alfred Hitchcock Animation and Special Effects Video Box: Look: The Sleep of Reason‹Viola and Goya Glossary PART V: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES Chapter 12: Craft The Arts and Crafts Movement Clay Box: Making: Mary Roehm on Potting Wood and Bamboo Metal Gold Bronze Iron Fiber Glass Box: Look: Dale Chihuly Glossary Chapter 13: Sculpture Relief Freestanding Sculpture Media and Techniques of Sculpture Modelling Casting Carving Mixed Media Ready-mades Assemblage Box: Making: Claes Oldenburg on Sculpture New Media Sculpture and the Environment Box: Look: The Vietnam Wall as Site and Text Glossary Chapter 14: Architecture Load-bearing Architecture Post-and-Lintel Arches and Vaults Corbel Arches Round Arches, Barrel Vaults, and Groin (Cross)-Vaults Pointed Arches and Rib Vaults Domes The Geodesic Dome Truss and Balloon Frames Cast-Iron Construction Steel-Frame Construction and Reinforced Concrete Cantilever Construction Suspension Box: Look: Gateway Arch, Saint Louis, Missouri Computer-assisted Design Box: Making: Santiago Calatrava on Architecture Glossary PART VI: ART IN HISTORY Chapter 15: The Ancient World Prehistory in Western Europe The Ancient Near East Ancient Egypt Box: Consider: Reading the Palette of Narmer: An Excursion into Egyptian Iconography The Aegean Civilizations Box: Meaning: I.M. Pei on influences from the Ancient World Glossary Chapter 16: Ancient Greece, Etruria, and Rome Ancient Greece Archaic Period Transition to the Classical Period Classical Architecture: The Parthenon Box: Consider: The Cultural Significance of the Parthenon Sculptures The Hellenistic Style The Etruscans Ancient Rome Box: Making: Grayson Perry on the influences of Ancient Rome Glossary Chapter 17: Early Christianity and the Medieval World The Rise of Christianity Early Christian Art Byzantine Art Box: Consider: Reading Christian Symbolism The Rise of Islam Islamic Art in Western Europe Early Medieval Art in Western Europe Romanesque Art Gothic Art Box: Meaning: TBA (contemporary artist discussing influences of the Medieval or Islamic World) Glossary Chapter 18: The Renaissance and Mannerism Fourteenth-century Italian Painting Italian Art in the Fifteenth Century Box: Meaning: Graham Nickson on the influence of Piero della Francesca Florence: The First Generation Box: Consider: Masaccio¹s Trinity, a Renaissance Synthesis of Form and Meaning The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy Painting in Venice Northern European Art in the Fifteenth Century The High Renaissance in Italy: c. 14801520 The Sixteenth Century in the North Mannerism Glossary Chapter 19: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Baroque Style in Italy Spanish Baroque: Velazquez Box: Consider: Las Meninas: Autobiography as Iconography French Baroque Baroque in Northern Europe Box: Meaning: Tracey Chevalier on the inspiration of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring England: Saint Paul¹s Cathedral The Rococo Style The Neoclassical Style The Federal Style Glossary Art Beyond the West Chapter 20: The Art of India and Southeast Asia Indus Valley Civilization Hinduism and Buddhism Emperor Ashoka: From Hinduism to Buddhism Box: Consider: The Stupa as a Cosmic Symbol Buddhist Sculpture in India Buddhist Painting in India: The Ajanta Caves Hindu Art in India Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Cambodia Mughal Art in India Glossary Chapter 21: The Arts of China and Japan Art in China Neolithic China Bronze Age China Daoism and Confucianism Emperor Qin Shihuangdi Box: Consider: Life Goes On, Emperor Qin Shihuangdi¹s Bodyguard The Tang Dynasty The Song Dynasty The Ming Dynasty Art in Japan Kofun Period The Buddhist Monastery in Japan Heian Period Kamakura Period Momoyama Period The Edo Period Glossary Chapter 22: Art in Africa Northwest Africa Nok Culture Mali Box: Consider: The Dogon Seated Couple The Yoruba Central-West Africa Cameroon South Africa Box: Meaning: Sokari Douglas Kamp on the influence of African masks. Glossary Chapter 23: Art of the Pacific and the Americas Arts of the Pacific Australia Melanesia Polynesia Hawaii Marquesas Tattoing Easter Island New Zealand Micronesia Arts of the Americas Paracas Culture Moche Culture Inka Civilization: Machu Picchu Mesoamerica The Olmec Teotihuacan The Maya Box: Consider: The Maya Ball Game The Aztecs North America Woodlands Northwest Coast: The Kwakiutl The Plains Southwest: The Cliff Dwelling Glossary Chapter 24: The Nineteenth Century Romanticism Spain: Goya France Germany: Friedrich England: Constable and Turner Romantic Landscape in the United States Realism Photography as Medium and Subject American Realist Painters: Homer and Tanner Realism and Architecture Impressionism Box: Consider: Who¹s Looking at Whom? The Erotic Gaze Sculpture: Rodin Post-Impressionism Box: Meaning: TBA (Contemporary artist on influence of 19th-century art) Glossary Chapter 25: 1900 to 1945 Expressionism and Cubism in France Futurism in Italy: Boccioni Expressionism and Suprematism in Russia and Germany Box: Consider: Malevich¹s Black Square World War I and the Dada Movement Realism and Abstraction in the United States The Harlem Renaissance Trends in Europe after World War I Tatlin¹s Constructivism De Stijl in Holland: Rietveld and Mondrian The Bauhaus in Germany Opposing Trends in Architecture: Le Corbusier and Wright Surrealism Photography Glossary Chapter 26: 1945 to the Present Abstract Expressionism Color Field Self-Taught: Horace Pippin and Grandma Moses Pop Art Minimalism Feminist Art: Judy Chicago Earth and Environmental Art: Smithson and the Christos Box: Meaning: Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude Box: Consider: The Pont Neuf Wrapped Photography: Self as Subject Photorealism and Super Realism: Estes and Hanson Graffiti and the Urban Street Performance, Video, and New Media Architecture Glossary  


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  • ISBN-13: 9780131779198
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1474 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0131779192
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 592
  • Width: 216 mm


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