Preface | p. 9 |
Learning to See | p. 11 |
Understanding Art | p. 12 |
What is Art? | p. 13 |
The Creative Impulse | p. 13 |
Types of Art | p. 14 |
Content | p. 33 |
Critical Opinion | p. 48 |
Lasting Greatness in Art | p. 55 |
Visual Elements | p. 58 |
Line | p. 59 |
Shape and Form | p. 73 |
Space | p. 93 |
Texture | p. 113 |
Value and Light | p. 119 |
Chiaroscuro | p. 128 |
Color | p. 134 |
Time | |
Organizing Principles of Design | p. 169 |
Repetition | p. 170 |
Variety | p. 174 |
Rhythm | p. 180 |
Balance | p. 182 |
Compositional Unity | p. 185 |
Emphasis | p. 188 |
Economy | p. 192 |
Proportion | p. 194 |
Relationship to the Environment | p. 196 |
Two-Dimensional Media and Methods | p. 203 |
Drawing | p. 204 |
Approaches to Drawing | p. 204 |
Dry Media | p. 207 |
Liquid Media | p. 213 |
Painting | p. 217 |
Approaches to Painting | p. 218 |
Paint Media | p. 222 |
Mixed Media | p. 248 |
Printmaking | p. 249 |
Approaches to Printmaking | p. 251 |
Printmaking Processes | p. 252 |
Mixed Print Media | p. 268 |
Graphic Design | p. 271 |
The Graphic Designer and Visual Ideas | p. 272 |
Typography | p. 275 |
Illustration | p. 278 |
Photography and Filmmaking | p. 281 |
Photography | p. 282 |
Film | p. 299 |
Television and Video | p. 307 |
Digital Art | p. 312 |
The Computer as a Drawing Medium | p. 313 |
The Computer as a Painting Medium | p. 314 |
The Computer in Three-Dimensional Art | p. 316 |
Video Graphics | p. 317 |
Virtual Reality | p. 319 |
The Computer as a Unique Art Medium | p. 320 |
Interactive Art in Cyberspace; Art Websites | p. 321 |
Three-Dimensional Media and Methods | p. 323 |
Sculpture | p. 324 |
Planning Sculptures | p. 325 |
Carving | p. 327 |
Modeling | p. 329 |
Casting | p. 334 |
Assembling | p. 338 |
Earthworks | p. 342 |
Crafts | p. 346 |
Clay | p. 347 |
Metal | p. 352 |
Wood | p. 355 |
Glass | p. 358 |
Fibers | p. 363 |
Product and Clothing Design | p. 368 |
Industrial Design | p. 369 |
Clothing Design | p. 374 |
Architecture | p. 380 |
Architects Unique Concerns | p. 381 |
Function | p. 383 |
Structure | p. 392 |
Designed Settings | p. 407 |
Interior Design | p. 408 |
Environmental Design | p. 412 |
Aesthetics in the Performing Arts | p. 418 |
Art in Time | p. 425 |
Historical Styles in Western Art | p. 426 |
Art Movements | p. 427 |
The Beginnings of Western Art | p. 427 |
Art of Ancient Cultures | p. 438 |
Medieval Art | p. 442 |
Renaissance Art | p. 448 |
Baroque Art | p. 462 |
Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Art | p. 466 |
Later Nineteenth-Century Art | p. 470 |
Realism | p. 470 |
Twentieth-Century Art | p. 477 |
Abstract and Nonobjective Art | p. 481 |
Understanding Art on All Levels | p. 508 |
Picassos Guernica | p. 509 |
Rodins Gates of Hell | p. 514 |
Michelangelos Sistine Chapel Ceiling | p. 518 |
Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Notes | p. 528 |
Glossary/ Pronunciation Guide | p. 532 |
Artists Pronunciation Guide | p. 544 |
Credits | p. 546 |
Index | p. 548 |
Timeline 30,000 B. C. A. D. 2000 | p. 430 |
Tables 35,000 B. C. A. D. | p. 500 |
Prehistoric to Roman | p. 428 |
5001500 Early Christian to Gothic | p. 444 |
14251640 Early Renaissance to Southern Baroque | p. 460 |
15001800 Northern Renaissance to Rococo | p. 463 |
17501950 Neoclassicism to Surrealism | p. 471 |
19452000+ Into the Twenty-First Century | p. 496 |
Maps The Prehistoric and Ancient World | p. 429 |
Europe in the Early Twelfth Century | p. 444 |
Renaissance Italy | p. 460 |
Northern Europe in the mid-Seventeenth Century | p. 463 |
Europe in the mid-Nineteenth Century | p. 471 |
The World in the Late Twentieth Century | p. 496 |
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