Full Description
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.
Contents
PART IChapter 1: What is Art?Brancusi v. United StatesArt Takes Many Forms: Variations on the Imagery of Birds and FlightControversy and Changing Views of ArtMichelangeloManetBox: Look: Self-Portraits by Rembrandt and PicassoCensorship and the Arts1937: Hitler(1)s Exhibition of (3)Degenerate Art(2)1989: Mapplethorpe Goes to CincinnatiLooking at ArtGlossaryChapter 2: The Creative ImpulseGods as Artists/Artists as GodsCreative Thinking and Visual MetaphorArt Inspired by Nature and the EnvironmentBox: Look: Gerome's Pygmalion and GalateaThe Natural LandscapeThe Urban LandscapeThe Psychological Landscape: Dream and MythGlossaryChapter 3: Cultural Purpose of ArtPortraits and Self-PortraitsCommemoration and DocumentationCommemoration and ReligionBox: Look: Illuminating the Word of GodThe Healing Power of Religious ImageryPolitical Purposes of ArtArt as Political and Social ProtestThe Art of CommunicationGlossaryChapter 4: Decorating Ourselves and Our EnvironmentPersonal DecorationGoing to WarDecorating Our Personal SpacesDecorating Walls and FloorsHousehold ObjectsFurniture Design: Chairs and ThronesBox: Look: Utility or ArtDecorating our Public SpacesDecorating our Means of TravelGlossaryPART III: THE ARTIST(1)S VISUAL LANGUAGEChapter 5: The Visual Elements of ArtLineLines Used to Create Shape and MassLines Used to Create Light and DarkImplied LinesLines Used to Create Emotional ExpressionSpaceOne-Point PerspectiveTwo-Point and Multiple-Point PerspectiveAtmospheric PerspectiveIsometric PerspectiveAbsence of Perspective in Ancient EgyptShape and Mass in SculptureTextureActual Texture in SculptureImplied and Actual Texture in PaintingTimeTime and MotionTime and Space in Renaissance PaintingLight and ColorExpressive Qualities of Light and ColorSymbolic Meanings of Light and ColorLight as the Source of Color: The Visible SpectrumThe Color WheelPhysical Properties of ColorBox: Look: Van Gogh(1)s Starry NightOptical Effects of ColorGlossaryChapter 6: Terminology and the Principles of DesignFormRepresentational ArtNonrepresentational ArtAbstract ArtStylized ArtIdealized ArtSubject Matter and ContentDesignUnity and VariationFocus, Emphasis, and SubordinationScale and ProportionBalanceRhythm and PatternRhythm, Color, and MusicBox: Look: Munch, The ScreamGlossaryChapter 7: The Methodologies of Art HistoryFormalismA Formal Approach to Keisei Eisen(1)s Oiran on ParadeIconography and IconologyThe Iconography of Giotto(1)s Adoration of the MagiThe Iconography of Andy Warhol(1)s U.S. Dollar SignMarxismA Marxist Reading of Daumier(1)s First- and Third-Class CarriagesFeminismBiography and AutobiographyBernini(1)s David as Autobiography: A Biographical ReadingGauguin(1)s Self-Portrait with Yellow ChristSemioticsPost-Structuralism and DeconstructionPsychoanalysisBox: Look: A Medley of Methods: Grant Wood(1)s American GothicGlossaryChapter 8: Drawing Functions of DrawingDry MediaCharcoalSilverpointBox: Making: David Hockney on DrawingPencilChalkCrayonLiquid Media: Pen and Ink, Brush and InkBox: Look: Mixed Drawing MediaGlossaryChapter 9: Painting and Related TechniquesPainting MediaEncausticFrescoTemperaOilWatercolourBox: Look: De Kooning(1)s Woman VIGouacheAcrylicBox: Making: Elizabeth Murray on PaintingTechniques Related to PaintingCollageStained GlassMosaicGlossaryChapter 10: PrintmakingRelief PrintsWoodcutWoodblockLinocutIntaglioEngravingWood EngravingDrypointMezzotintAquatintEtchingLithographyBox: Look: Klimt(1)s Music of 1901SerigraphyMonotypeOffset PrintingGraphic DesignBox: Making: Milton Glaser on Graphic DesignGlossaryChapter 11: Still Photography, Film, Video, and Digital ImageryStill PhotographyHistorical DevelopmentPortraitureRecording the CityLandscapePhotojournalism and Social DocumentationThe Decisive MomentAdvertising and FashionBox: Making: Wolfgang Tillmans on PhotographyNew Approaches and TechniquesFrom Still Photography to Motion PicturesMotion PicturesBeginningsD.W. GriffithCharlie ChaplinSergei EisensteinThe OETalkies(1) and ColorIngmar BergmanAlfred HitchcockAnimation and Special EffectsVideoBox: Look: The Sleep of Reason
