For courses in Art Appreciation, Art courses for non-majors, and one-semester Introduction to Art classes.
From the First Edition in 1972, ARTFORMS has been as visually exciting as the individual works of art that are reproduced in it. ARTFORMS grew out of a desire to introduce art through an engaging visual experience. It is written and designed to help readers build an informed foundation for individual understanding and enjoyment of art. By introducing art theory, practice, and history in a single volume, this book aims to draw students into a new or expanded awareness of the visual arts. The goal is to engage readers in the process of realizing their own innate creativity. In the new, Eighth Edition, the title has been modified to Prebles' ARTFORMS, acknowledging the pioneering contribution of the original authors, Duane and Sarah Preble, to the study of art. Their vision and spirit have touched hundreds of thousands of students who have studied ARTFORMS.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
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PART ONE| Art is… 1
1 The Nature of Art 2
What Is Art? 2
The Need To Be Creative 3
Purposes and Functions of Art 5
Biography: Jazz, Memory, and Metaphor:
Romare Bearden 11
2 Awareness, Creativity, and
Communication 15
Visual Thinking 15
Perception and Awareness 15
Looking and Seeing 16
Aesthetics, Art, and Beauty 18
Art in the World: Early Encounters with
the Artist Within 21
Art and Experience 22
Creativity 22
Untrained and Folk Artists 23
Trained Artists 26
Visual Communication 26
Art and Appearances 27
Form and Content 31
Seeing and Responding to Form 32
Biography: A Personal Vision:
Georgia O’Keeffe 34
Iconography 35
Artists at Work: Carlos Frésquez 38
PART TWO| The Language of
Visual Experience 39
3 VISUAL ELEMENTS 40
Line 41
Shape 44
Mass 46
Space 48
Time and Motion 55
Artists at Work: Jones and Ginzel 56
Light 59
Color 61
Texture 68
4 Principles of Design 72
Unity and Variety 72
Balance 75
Emphasis and Subordination 80
Directional Forces 80
Contrast 82
Repetition and Rhythm 82
Scale and Proportion 84
Design Summary 88
Biography: Expression Is Foremost:
Henri Matisse 90
5 EVALUATING ART 91
Evaluation 91
Art Criticism 93
Biography: Art into Words: Peter Plagens 97
Art in the World: Visiting It 98
PART THREE| The Media of Art 99
6 DRAWING 100
Biography: A Life’s Work in Ten Years: Vincent van Gogh 104
Purposes of Drawing 105
Dry Media 108
Liquid Media 111
Contemporary Approaches 113
7 PAINTING 115
Watercolor 116
Tempera 119
Oil 119
Acrylic 123
Encaustic 123
Fresco 124
Art in the World: Art as Activism: The Great Wall of Los Angeles 126
8 PRINTMAKING 127
Intaglio 130
Lithography 134
Current Directions 139
Art in the World: Handmade Originals in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction 140
9 CAMERA ARTS AND
COMPUTER IMAGING 141
Photography 141
Biography: "A Photographer at My Very Core:"
Margaret Bourke-White 147
Film: The Moving Image 150
Television and Video 158
Digital Art Forms 159
Artists at Work: James Johnson 163
Art in the World: The Digital Revolution in
the Art World 164
10 GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION 165
Design Disciplines 165
Graphic Design 166
Biography: Design Between the Eyes: Chaz Maviyane-Davies 170
Illustration 172
11 SCULPTURE 175
Freestanding and Relief Sculpture 175
Methods and Materials 176
Artists at Work: Scott Chamberlin 178
Kinetic Sculpture 186
Installations 189
12 CLAY, GLASS, METAL, WOOD, FIBER 191
Clay 192
Biography: Shaping Her People’s Heritage: Nampeyo 194
Glass 196
Metal 197
Wood 198
Fiber 199
Biography: Stitched into History:
Faith Ringgold 205
13 ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 206
Architecture 206
Biography: Deconstructing a Building:
Zaha Hadid 220
Biography: Radical Innovator:
Frank Lloyd Wright 223
Green Building 224
Industrial Design 226
PART FOUR Art as Cultural Heritage 229
14 From the Earliest Art to the Bronze Age 230
The Paleolithic Period 230
The Neolithic Period 233
The Beginnings of Civilization 236
Mesopotamia 236
Egypt 238
15 The Classical and Medieval West 242
Greece 242
Rome 248
Early Christian and Byzantine Art 250
The Middle Ages in Europe 257
16 RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE EUROPE 263
The Renaissance 263
Biography: The Artist as Scientist: Leonardo da Vinci 270
Biography: Temperamental Genius:
Michelangelo Buonarroti 271
Baroque 279
Biography: Insight and Compassion:
Rembrandt van Rijn 283
Art in the World: Where Were the Women? 287
Art in the World: The Uphill Battle of
Art Restoration 288
17 TRADITIONAL ARTS OF ASIA 289
India 289
Southeast Asia 296
China 299
Japan 309
18 THE ISLAMIC WORLD 317
Arab Lands 318
Spain 319
Persia 320
India: The Mughal Empire 321
Art in the World: Looting It 324
20 AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS 325
Africa 325
Oceania and Australia 331
Native North America 336
Biography: Warrior, Captive, and Artist:
Howling Wolf 341
Pre-Columbian Central and South America 342
Art in the World: On Returning Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? 346
PART FIVE| The Modern World 347
20 LATE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
CENTURIES 348
Neoclassicism 348
Romanticism 350
Photography 354
Realism 356
Biography: Flouting Social Conventions:
Rosa Bonheur 359
Impressionism 363
Biography: Devoted to Light:
Claude Monet 365
The Post-Impressionist Period 369
Biography: Nature as Source: Paul Cézanne 372
Biography: Struggling Idealist:
Paul Gauguin 377
21 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 380
The Fauves and Expressionism 381
Cubism 385
Biography: Restless Creativity: Pablo Picasso 390
Toward Abstraction Sculpture 391
The Modern Spirit in America 392
Futurism and the Celebration of Motion 394
22 BETWEEN WORLD WARS 397
Dada 397
Global Influences 400
Surrealism 400
Biography: Compelling Autobiographer: Frida Kahlo 404
The Influence of Cubism 405
Building a New Society 407
Political Protest 410
Biography: Painting for the People:
Diego Rivera 413
American Painting 415
African-American Modernists 417
23 POSTWAR MODERN MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST 419
Abstract Expressionism and
Related Art 419
Photography and Architecture at
Early Pop Art 427
Biography: Art and Ordinary Life: Robert Rauschenberg 428
Events and Happenings 430
Pop Art 432
Minimal and Hard-Edge 435
Conceptual Art 437
Site Works and Earthworks 438
Installations and Environments 440
Early Feminism 442
Performance Art 444
Artists at Work: Meirle Ukeles 445
Art in the World:
Who Wants to Censor? 446
24 MODERN ART BEYOND THE WEST 447
Japan 447
China 448
India 450
Islamic Lands 452
Africa 452
PART SIX: The Postmodern World 455
25 POSTMODERNITY AND GLOBAL ART 456
Postmodern Architecture 457
Painting 458
Photography 461
Sculpture 463
Public Art 466
Artists at Work: R. M. Fischer 467
Issue-Oriented Art 468
The Global Present 470
Timeline 477
Glossary x
Pronunciation Guide x
Notes x
Suggested Readings x
Suggested Websites x
Index x
