Full Description
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by an image? That's where this book begins. "Understanding Art, Cengage International Edition" starts with your intuition and helps you build on it. Learn to recognize how artworks are constructed, interpret their meanings and connect them to larger contexts. With reproduced images spanning cultures and centuries, you'll explore how artists use the elements and principles of design to create meaning. Special features help you develop visual literacy: Theory + Practice shows the creative process, Compare + Contrast trains observational skills and the Visual Culture section expands your understanding to ceramics, textiles, fashion and architecture. The text gives you tools to look deeper and think critically, proving that understanding doesn't diminish pleasure -- it multiplies both the mystery and the pleasure.
Contents
1. Understanding Art.
2. Line and Shape.
3. Light and Color.
4. Texture and Pattern.
5. Space, Time, and Motion.
6. Principles of Design.
7. Drawing.
8. Painting.
9. Printmaking and Graphic Design.
10. Imaging: Photography, the Moving Image, and Digital Arts.
11. Sculpture: Form, Space, and Design.
12. Craft Arts Across time and Cultures.
13. Architecture.
14. Art of the Ancient World.
15. Ancient Civilizations and Empires: From Greece to Mesopotamia.
16. The Medieval Period.
17. The Renaissance Era Across the World.
18. The 17th and 18thCenturies.
19. The Modern Era.
20. The 20th Century: The Early Years.
21. The 20th Century: Postwar to Postmodernism.
22. Issues in Global Contemporary Art.
Visual Glossary: Themes and Purposes of Art.
