Art of Seeing

by Paul Zelanski

Edition:

3rd

ISBN13:

9780130599162

ISBN10:

0130599166

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

12/1/1994

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

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Summary

This best-selling exploration of traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focuses on art as seen from the artist's point of view , treating artistic techniques and introductory aesthetic principles. It is an engaging, clear, and concise presentation with a multi-cultural emphasis. The careful design of the illustrations, text, headings, timelines, and boxes enhances the relationship between text and illustrations. The book has a four-part organization--Part I lays the foundation for seeing; Parts II and III views two-and three-dimensional art; and Part IV approaches art as it exists in time. Topics cover a broad range of media and traditional and contemporary art, including installation; video and performance art; encaustic; fresco; wood engraving; earthworks; computers and art.

Learning To See
Understanding Art
The Creative Impulse
BOX:Maria Lewis on Suffering and Creativity
Content
Political Content
Power and Propaganda
Spiritual Purposes
Inner Experiences
BOX:Vincent van Gogh on Emotion and Intellect
Beauty in Form
Forms of Art
Two-and Three dimensional Art
Degrees of Realism
Fine and Applied Arts
BOX:Georgia O'Keefe on ldquo;Saying What I Want To
rdquo;Public and Private Art
Art Issues: Censorship of Offensive Art
Critical Opinion
Art Issues: Race and Gender Criticism
Greatness in Art
Visual Elements
Line
Seeing Lines
The World Seen: Islamic Calligraphy
Implied Line
Descriptive Line
Expressive Qualities of Line
Directional Line
Shape and Form
Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Form
BOX:Henry Moore on Form and Space
Two-Dimensional Illusion of Form Shapes
BOX:Arshile Gorky on the Intensity of Art
Space
Three-Dimensional Art in Space
Two-Dimensional Space
Scale
Spatial Illusion
Texture
Actual Texture
Simulated Texture
Value and Light
Local and Interpretive Values
Lighting
Reflections
Light as a Medium
Color
A Vocabulary of Color
Natural and Applied Color
Local, Atmospheric, and Interpretive Color
Emotional Effects of Color
Warm and Cool Colors
Advancing and Receding Colors
Color Combinations
Interaction of Color
Limited and Open Palette
BOX:Josef Albers on the Complexity of Color
Time
Actual Movement
Illusion of Movement
BOX:Auguste Rodin on the Illusion of Movement
The Captured Moment
Change Through Time
Organizing Principles of Design
Repetition
Variety
Rhythm
Balance
Compositional Unity
Emphasis
Economy
Proportion
BOX:Wassily Kandinsky on Underlying Harmony
Relationship to the Environment
Two-Dimensional Media and Methods
Drawing
Approaches to Drawing
Dry Media
Graphite Pencil
Silverpoint
Charcoal
Chalk
Pastel Crayon
Liquid Media
Pen and Ink
BOX:The World Seen: Chinese Landscape Paintings
Brush and Ink
Painting
Approaches to Painting
Paint Media
Encaustic
Leonardo da Vinci on Chiaroscuro
Fresco
Tempera
Art Issues: Are there Limits to the Restorer's Art? Oil
Art Issues: Cleaning and Restoring Paintings
Watercolor
Gouache
Synthetics
Collage
The Word Seen: Tibetan Sand Paintings
Mosaic
Mixed Media
Printmaking
Printmaking Processes
Relief
BOX:Stephen Alcorn on the Challenge of Linocuts
Intaglio
Planographic
Stencil
Mixed Print Media
Graphic Design
The Graphic Designer and Visual Ideas
BOX:Peter Good on the Art of Graphic Design
Typography
Illustration
Photography, Photocopy, and Film-Making
Photography
BOX:Edward Weston on Photography as a Way of Seeing
Photocopy and Fax Art
Film
Television and Video
Art Issues: Mixing Art and Politics: The Films of Leni Riefenstahl
Computer Graphics
The Computer as a Drawing Medium
The Computer as a Painting Medium
The Computer in Three-Dimensional Art
Video Graphics
Virtual Reality
The Computer as a Unique Art Medium
Art in Cyberspace
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