Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts

by Preble, Duane; Preble, Sarah; Frank, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780321002297
• ISBN10: 0321002296
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This bestseller introduces readers to the theory, practice, and history necessary for an expanded awareness of and enthusiasm for art in everyday life. Increased coverage of female artists and diversity in world arts is included in the Sixth Edition. A web site offers profiles of working artists and an essay contest which challenges participants to write about art they encounter.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
PART 1: ART IS...	1	(40)
The Nature of Art	2	(13)
What Is Art?	2	(1)
Is Art a Necessity?	3	(2)
Purposes and Functions of Art	5	(10)
Biography: Jazz, Memory, and Metaphor	11	(4)
Romare Bearden
Awareness, Creativity, and Communication	15	(26)
Visual Thinking	15	(1)
Perception and Awareness	15	(1)
Looking and Seeing	16	(2)
Aesthetics, Art, and Beauty	18	(2)
Art and Experience	20	(1)
Creativity	20	(5)
Essay: Early Encounters with the Artist Within	21	(4)
Untrained and Folk Artists	25	(3)
Trained Artists	28	(1)
Visual Communication	28	(1)
Art and Appearances	28	(5)
Form and Content	33	(1)
Seeing and Responding to Form	34	(3)
Biography: A Personal Vision	36	(1)
Georgia O'Keeffe
Iconography	37	(4)
PART 2: THE LANGUAGE OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE	41	(74)
Visual Elements	42	(32)
Line	43	(3)
Shape	46	(2)
Mass	48	(3)
Biography: Going Beyond Tradition	50	(1)
Henry Moore
Space	51	(7)
Time and Motion	58	(3)
Light	61	(3)
Color	64	(7)
Texture	71	(3)
Principles of Design	74	(20)
Unity and Variety	74	(3)
Balance	77	(5)
Emphasis and Subordination	82	(1)
Directional Forces	82	(2)
Contrast	84	(1)
Repetition and Rhythm	84	(2)
Scale and Proportion	86	(4)
Design Summary	90	(4)
Biography: Expression Is Foremost	92	(2)
Henri Matisse
Style	94	(14)
Cultural Style	94	(2)
Period Style	96	(2)
Regional Style	98	(2)
Group Style	100	(2)
Personal Style	102	(6)
Biography: Art as Social Conscience	104	(1)
Kathe Kollwitz
Biography: Found Joy	105	(3)
Louise Nevelson
Evaluation and Criticism	108	(7)
Evaluation	108	(3)
Art Criticism	111	(4)
Biography: A Discriminating Eye	113	(1)
Robert Hughes
Essay: On Visiting an Art Museum	114	(1)
PART 3: TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARTS	115	(80)
Drawing	116	(14)
Biography: A Life's Work in Ten Years	121	(1)
Vincent van Gogh
Purposes of Drawing	122	(3)
Dry Media	125	(3)
Liquid Media	128	(2)
Painting	130	(13)
Watercolor	131	(3)
Tempera	134	(1)
Oil	134	(3)
Acrylic	137	(1)
Encaustic	138	(1)
Fresco	139	(4)
Essay: Art as Activism: The Great Wall of Los Angeles	141	(2)
Printmaking	143	(14)
Relief	144	(2)
Intaglio	146	(4)
Lithography	150	(4)
Screenprinting	154	(1)
Current Directions	155	(2)
Essay: Handmade Originals in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction	156	(1)
Camera Arts and Computer Imaging	157	(27)
Photography	157	(13)
Biography: ``A Photographer at My Very Core''	166	(4)
Margaret Bourke-White
Film: The Moving Image	170	(8)
Television and Video	178	(2)
Computer-Generated Imagery	180	(4)
Essay: The Internet as a Cultural Meeting Place	183	(1)
Graphic Design and Illustration	184	(11)
Design Disciplines	184	(2)
Graphic Design	186	(7)
Illustration	193	(2)
PART 4: THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARTS	195	(62)
Crafts	196	(1)
Craft and Art	196	(1)
Clay	197	(5)
Biography: Shaping Her People's Heritage	199	(3)
Nampeyo
Glass	202	(1)
Metal	203	(2)
Wood	205	(1)
Fiber	206	(6)
Biography: Stitched into History	211	(1)
Faith Ringgold
Sculpture	212	(17)
Freestanding and Relief Sculpture	212	(2)
Methods and Materials	214	(9)
Kinetic Sculpture	223	(2)
Biography: Art That Moves	224	(1)
Alexander Calder
Mixed Media	225	(2)
Installations and Site-Specific Sculpture	227	(2)
Architecture and Environmental Design	229	(28)
Architecture	229	(20)
Biography: A Sensitive Modernist	245	(4)
Tadao Ando
Environmental Design	249	(8)
Biography: Radical Innovator	250	(5)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Essay: Where We Live	255	(2)
PART 5: ART AS CULTURAL HERITAGE	257	(120)
Prehistoric to Early Civilization	258	(7)
The Paleolithic Period	259	(3)
The Neolithic Period	262	(2)
The Beginnings of Civilization	264	(1)
Ancient through Medieval in the Middle East and Europe	265	(25)
Mesopotamia	265	(2)
Egypt	267	(3)
Greece	270	(5)
Rome	275	(3)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art	278	(5)
The Middle Ages in Europe	283	(7)
Renaissance and Baroque	290	(28)
The Renaissance	290	(16)
Biography: The Artist as Scientist	297	(1)
Leonardo da Vinci
Biography: Temperamental Genius	298	(8)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Baroque	306	(12)
Biography: Insight and Compassion	310	(4)
Rembrandt van Rijn
Essay: Where Were the Women?	314	(2)
Essay: Preservation and Restoration	316	(2)
Traditional Arts of Asia	318	(28)
India	318	(7)
Southeast Asia	325	(3)
China	328	(11)
Biography: ``Strange and Great''	337	(2)
Bada Shanren
Japan	339	(7)
The Islamic World	346	(7)
Arab Lands	347	(1)
Spain	348	(1)
Persia	349	(1)
India: The Mughal Empire	350	(3)
Biography: Islam's Greatest Architect	352	(1)
Sinan
Africa, Oceania, and the Americas	353	(24)
Africa	353	(7)
Oceania and Australia	360	(4)
Native North America	364	(7)
Biography: Warrior, Captive, and Artist	369	(2)
Howling Wolf
Pre-Columbia Central and South America	371	(6)
Essay: On Returning Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?	375	(2)
PART 6: THE MODERN WORLD	377	(125)
Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	378	(32)
Neoclassicism	378	(2)
Romanticism	380	(5)
Photography	385	(2)
Realism	387	(6)
Biography: Flouting Social Conventions	389	(4)
Rosa Bonheur
Impressionism	393	(6)
Biography: Devoted to Light	395	(4)
Claude Monet
The Post-Impressionist Period	399	(11)
Biography: Nature as Source	402	(5)
Paul Cezanne
Biography: Struggling Idealist	407	(3)
Paul Gauguin
Early Twentieth Century	410	(18)
Toward Abstraction	410	(4)
Essay: A Judge Confronts Abstract Sculpture: Brancusi vs the United States	413	(1)
The Fauves and Expressionism	414	(4)
Cubism	418	(6)
Biography: Restless Creativity	423	(1)
Pablo Picasso
The Modern Spirit in America	424	(2)
Futurism and the Celebration of Motion	426	(2)
Between World Wars	428	(21)
Dada	428	(3)
Fantasy and Metaphysics	431	(1)
Surrealism	432	(4)
Biography: Compelling Autobiographer	435	(1)
Frida Kahlo
The Influence of Cubism	436	(2)
Building a New Society	438	(3)
Political Protest	441	(5)
Biography: Painting for the People	444	(2)
Diego Rivera
American Painting	446	(3)
Accelerated Change: Art after 1945	449	(30)
Abstract Expressionism and Related Art	449	(6)
Photography and Architecture at Mid-Century	455	(2)
Neo-Dada	457	(3)
Biography: Art and Ordinary Life	458	(2)
Robert Rauschenberg
Events and Happenings	460	(1)
Pop Art	461	(4)
Minimal and Hard-Edge	465	(2)
Conceptual Art	467	(1)
Site Works and Earthworks	467	(3)
Installations and Environments	470	(1)
Early Feminism	471	(3)
Performance Art	474	(1)
Photorealist Painting and Superrealist Sculpture	475	(4)
Essay: Censorship	477	(2)
Recent Diversity	479	(23)
Postmodern Architecture	480	(2)
Painting	482	(3)
Photography	485	(2)
Sculpture	487	(2)
Public Art	489	(3)
Issue-Oriented Art	492	(4)
The Global Present	496	(6)
Timeline	502	(3)
Glossary	505	(7)
Pronunciation Guide	512	(2)
Notes	514	(3)
Suggested Readings	517	(3)
Suggested Websites	520	(2)
Photographic Credits	522	(2)
Index	524