Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts

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

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6th

ISBN13:

9780321002297

ISBN10:

0321002296

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/1999

Publisher(s):

Pearson College Div

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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.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

PART 1: ART IS...

(40)

The Nature of Art

(13)

What Is Art?

(1)

Is Art a Necessity?

(2)

Purposes and Functions of Art

(10)

Biography: Jazz, Memory, and Metaphor

(4)

Romare Bearden

Awareness, Creativity, and Communication

(26)

Visual Thinking

(1)

Perception and Awareness

(1)

Looking and Seeing

(2)

Aesthetics, Art, and Beauty

(2)

Art and Experience

(1)

Creativity

(5)

Essay: Early Encounters with the Artist Within

(4)

Untrained and Folk Artists

(3)

Trained Artists

(1)

Visual Communication

(1)

Art and Appearances

(5)

Form and Content

(1)

Seeing and Responding to Form

(3)

Biography: A Personal Vision

(1)

Georgia O'Keeffe

Iconography

(4)

PART 2: THE LANGUAGE OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE

(74)

Visual Elements

(32)

Line

(3)

Shape

(2)

Mass

(3)

Biography: Going Beyond Tradition

(1)

Henry Moore

Space

(7)

Time and Motion

(3)

Light

(3)

Color

(7)

Texture

(3)

Principles of Design

(20)

Unity and Variety

(3)

Balance

(5)

Emphasis and Subordination

(1)

Directional Forces

(2)

Contrast

(1)

Repetition and Rhythm

(2)

Scale and Proportion

(4)

Design Summary

(4)

Biography: Expression Is Foremost

(2)

Henri Matisse

Style

(14)

Cultural Style

(2)

Period Style

(2)

Regional Style

(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)

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