Prebles' Artforms

Prebles’ Artforms continues to lead the field with its steadfast focus on contemporary art, global artists, and cutting edge technology for the art appreciation classroom.   We form Art. Art forms us. The title of this book has a dual meaning. Besides the expected discussion of the various forms of art, the title also reflects the fact that art does indeed help to form us as people. As we create forms, we are in turn formed by what we have created. Several years ago, the title was changed 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 this book.   Artforms grew out of a desire to introduce art through an engaging visual experience, and to expose students to a culturally diverse canon of work. 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.   Beyond fostering appreciation of major works of art, this book’s primary concern is to open students’ eyes and minds to the richness of the visual arts as unique forms of human communication and to convey the idea that the arts enrich life best when we experience, understand, and enjoy them as integral parts of the process of living.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  PREFACE    Part 1: The Language of Visual Experience 1 THE NATURE OF ART AND CREATIVITY  What Is Art?  Purposes and Functions of Art  Biography: Jazz, Memory, and Metaphor: Romare Bearden Creativity Art in the World: Early Encounters with the Artist Within  Untrained Artists    2 VISUAL COMMUNICATION  Looking and Seeing The Visual Toolbox Line  Shape  Mass  Space  Time and Motion  Light  Color  Art and Reality Seeing and Responding to Form   Biography: A Personal Vision: Georgia O’Keeffe  Iconography    3 HOW AN ART WORK IS BUILT Unity and Variety  Balance  Emphasis and Subordination  Directional Forces  Contrast  Repetition and Rhythm  Scale and Proportion  Design Summary  Biography: Expression Is Foremost: Henri Matisse    Part 2: The Media of Art   4 DRAWING Biography: A Life’s Work in Ten Years: Vincent van Gogh  106 Purposes of Drawing  Tools and Techniques Graphic Novels / Comics  Contemporary Approaches    5 PAINTING  Ingredients and Surfaces Watercolor  Tempera and Encaustic  Oil  Acrylic  Fresco  Art in the World:The Great Wall of Los Angeles      6 PRINTMAKING Relief  Intaglio  Lithography  Stencil  Current Directions    7 PHOTOGRAPHY A Tool and an Art Form  Biography: “A Photographer at My Very Core:” Margaret Bourke-White  Pushing the Limits The Digital Revolution    8 MOVING IMAGES: FILM AND DIGITAL ARTS  Film: The Moving Image  Television and Video  Digital Art Forms   9 GRAPHIC DESIGN  Design Disciplines  Graphic Design  Biography: Design Between the Eyes: Chaz Maviyane-Davies  Interactive Design Motion Graphics  Product Design    10 SCULPTURE  Freestanding and Relief Sculpture  Methods and Materials  Kinetic Sculpture  Mixed Media  Installations and Site-Specific Art    11 FLIRTING WITH FUNCTION  Clay  At the Edge of Art: Boolean Valley  Glass  Metal  Wood  Fiber  Biography: Stitched into History: Faith Ringgold    12 ARCHITECTURE  An Art and a Science Styles, Materials, and Methods Biography: Deconstructing a Building: Zaha Hadid  Designing with Nature  Biography: Radical Innovator: Frank Lloyd Wright    13 EVALUATING ART  Evaluation  Art Criticism  What Makes it Great?  Art in the World:What to Do in a Museum    Part 3: Art as Cultural Heritage   14 FROM THE EARLIEST ART TO THE BRONZE AGE  The Paleolithic Period  At the Edge of Art:Stones from Blombos The Neolithic Period  The Beginnings of Civilization  Mesopotamia  Egypt    15 THE CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL WEST  Greece  Art in the World:The Battle of the Parthenon    Rome  Early Christian and Byzantine Art  The Middle Ages in Europe    16 RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE EUROPE  The Renaissance  Biography: Temperamental Genius: Michelangelo Buonarroti  Baroque  Art in the World:Engendering It      17 TRADITIONAL ARTS OF ASIA  India  Southeast Asia  China  Japan    18 THE ISLAMIC WORLD  Arab Lands  Spain  Persia  India: The Mughal Empire    19 AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS  Africa  Oceania and Australia At the Edge of Art:New Ireland Mask   Native North America  Biography: Warrior, Captive, and Artist: Howling Wolf  Pre-Columbian Central and South America    Part 4: The Modern World   20 LATE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES  Neoclassicism  Romanticism  Photography  Realism  Biography: Flouting Social Conventions: Rosa Bonheur  Impressionism  Biography: Guided by Light: Claude Monet  The Post-Impressionist Period  Biography: Struggling Idealist: Paul Gauguin    21 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY  The Fauves and Expressionism  Cubism  Biography: Restless Creativity: Pablo Picasso  Toward Abstract Sculpture  The Modern Spirit in America  Futurism and the Celebration of Motion    22 BETWEEN WORLD WARS  Dada  Surrealism  Expanding on Cubism  Building a New Society  Political Protest  Latin American Modernism  American Regionalism  Biography: Compelling Autobiographer: Frida Kahlo  African-American Modernists  Organic Abstraction    23 POSTWAR MODERN MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST  The New York School  Photography and Architecture at Mid-Century  Assemblage  Events and Happenings At the Edge of Art:Sensorial Masks   Pop Art  Biography: The Pope of Pop: Andy Warhol  Minimal Art  Conceptual Art  Site Works and Earthworks  Installations and Environments  Early Feminism  Performance Art  Art in the World:Censoring It      24 MODERN ART BEYOND THE WEST  Japan At the Edge of Art:Passing Through   China  India  Islamic Lands  Africa    Part 5: The Postmodern World   25 POSTMODERNITY AND GLOBAL ART  Postmodern Architecture  Painting  Photography  Sculpture  Public Art  Issue-Oriented Art  Street Art At the Edge of Art  The Global Present  TIMELINE  GLOSSARY  PRONUNCIATION GUIDE  NOTES  INDEX 

About the Author :
Patrick Frank has taught in many higher education environments, from rural community colleges to private research universities. His recent scholarly work has focused on Latin American graphic arts. He is author of Posada’s Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery 1890–1910 and Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers’ Culture in Buenos Aires (University of New Mexico Press). He has curated five exhibitions of Latin American prints. He has also edited a volume of artists’ writings, Readings in Latin American Modern Art (Yale University Press). He served as collaborating author for the modern section of Marilyn Stokstad’s Art History (third edition). He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and is currently teaching the History of Modern Latin American Art at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. He lives in the seaside community of Venice.