About the Book
"Responding to Art: Form, Content, & Context" is designed to excite and interest students with minimal knowledge of art and limited confidence in responding to it. To this end, the book starts at the students' introductory level and sets out to stimulate their interest and active participation. From the onset, "Responding to Art" integrates art and design forms that the students are already familiar with and have some interest in: including CD covers, magazine advertisements, fashion styles, websites, crafts, product design, and folk art. In addition, the book engages students and builds their confidence by incorporating into the opening chapter responses to art by introductory-level students like themselves. This sends an immediate message to the students that their own thoughts and feelings are valid, valued, and diverse. With expanded interest, confidence, and knowledge, students are prepared for more challenging art forms, information, and concepts.
Table of Contents:
PART ONE: THE PROCESS OF APPRECIATION 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: Kathe 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 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: Teotihuacan: 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 Leyster's The Proposition Eighteenth-Century Art: Baroque to Rococo to Neoclassical Neoclassicism, Democracy, and Revolution Appreciation 30: Elisabeth Vigee-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: Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 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 O'Keeffe Appreciation 35: Romare Bearden's Patchwork Quilt Appreciation 36: Georgia O'Keeffe's 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 Su bjects, 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 Museum's 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
