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Designed for courses in Creativity or Three-Dimensional Design, Launching the Imagination: A Guide to Three-Dimensional Design offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this second edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using hundreds of examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Profiles with interviews of artists and designers introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteria for excellence from a remarkable group of masters. Launching the Imagination is available in a comprehensive volume treating 2D design, Creativity and Problem-solving, 3D design, and time-based (4D) design; or in split volumes containing either 2D or 3D design, plus the material on Creativity and Problem-solving.Launching the Imagination's Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM, version 2.0, which engages students interactively with the elements and principles of art through numerous interactive exercises, has been re-organized and expanded. A copy of this CD-ROM is included free with every copy of the textbook purchased from McGraw-Hill, a student-value of over $30, and is also available individually through your local bookstore.

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Author:   Mary Stewart
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.783kg
ISBN:  

9780072878752

ISBN 10:   0072878754
Publication Date:   16 April 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction**PART 2: CONCEPTS AND CRITICAL THINKING*CHAPTER 4: CULTIVATING CREATIVITYDesign and Creativity Seven Characteristics of Creative ThinkingGoal SettingTime ManagementProfile: Nancy Callahan, Artist, and Diane Gallo, WriterCHAPTER 5: PROBLEM SEEKING AND PROBLEM SOLVINGProblem SeekingConvergent and Divergent ThinkingBrainstormingVisual ResearchVariations on a ThemeAn Open MindProfile: Heidi Lasher-Oakes, SculptorCHAPTER 6: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKINGEstablishing CriteriaForm, Subject, and ContentsStop, Look, Listen, Learn Types of CritiquesDeveloping a Long-Term ProjectTurn Up the Heat: Pushing Your Project's PotentialConcept and CompositionAccepting ResponsibilityProfile: Bob Dacey, IllustratorCHAPTER 7: CONSTRUCTING MEANINGBuilding BridgesPurpose and IntentContextConnectionsDramaAesthetics and AnestheticsProfile: Ken Botnick, Graphic DesignerPART 3: THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGNCHAPTER 8: ELEMENTS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGNDefining FormForm and FunctionOrthographic ProjectionDegrees of DimensionalityLinePlaneVolumeMassSpaceTextureLightColorTimeThe complexity of Three-Dimensional DesignProfile: Rodger Mack, Sculptor CHAPTER 9 PRINCIPLES OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN Unity and VarietyBalance Scale ProportionEmphasisRepetition and Rhythm Profile: David MacDonald, Ceramicist CHAPTER 10: MATERIALS AND METHODS Choice of MaterialsConnectionsTransitionsTraditional Materials, Contemporary UsesStudent MaterialsMaterials and MeaningsProfile: Todd Slaughter, SculptorCHAPTER 11: PHYSICAL AND CEREBRALConstructed Thought Physical forcesCerebral Qualities of Sculptural ObjectsContemporary Questions, Contemporary AnswersExpressing Ideas in Physical FormProfile: Rick Paul, SculptorGlossaryCreditsIndex*Each chapter includes: Key Questions interspersed throughout, Summaries, and Key Terms**Each Part concludes with Multimedia Resources guide.For student independent study: the Multimedia Resources guide suggested relevant exercises on the Online Learning Center (OLC) and the Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM.For instructors: the Multimedia Resources guide suggests additional resources available on the password-protected teacher's OLC and the Instructor's Resources CD-ROM such as projects and other assignments.

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Mary Stewartauthor, artist, and educatoris the Foundations Program Director for the Art Department at Florida State University and co-founder of Integrative Teaching Thinktank, a national organization devoted to strengthening college-level teaching. She regularly gives workshops and lectures on creativity, curriculum design, visual communication, leadership and visual narrative. Her artwork has been shown in over eighty exhibitions nationally and internationally, and she has received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants for choreography. She received the FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) Master Educator award and the National Council of Arts Administrators Award of Distinction in 2009.

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