Overview

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.  

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Author:   Laurie Schneider Adams ,  Laurence King Publishing, Ltd
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.474kg
ISBN:  

9780131779198

ISBN 10:   0131779192
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   10 August 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

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: Hitler(1)s Exhibition of (3)Degenerate Art(2) 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 ARTIST(1)S 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 Gogh(1)s 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 Eisen(1)s Oiran on Parade Iconography and Iconology The Iconography of Giotto(1)s Adoration of the Magi The Iconography of Andy Warhol(1)s U.S. Dollar Sign Marxism A Marxist Reading of Daumier(1)s First- and Third-Class Carriages Feminism Biography and Autobiography Bernini(1)s David as Autobiography: A Biographical Reading Gauguin(1)s Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ Semiotics Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction Psychoanalysis Box: Look: A Medley of Methods: Grant Wood(1)s 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 Kooning(1)s 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: Klimt(1)s 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 OETalkies(1) and Color Ingmar Bergman Alfred Hitchcock Animation and Special Effects Video Box: Look: The Sleep of Reason

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