Artforms : An Introduction to the Visual Arts

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

• ISBN13: 9780130899798
• ISBN10: 0130899798
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For Art Appreciation, Art for Non-Majors, and Introduction to Art. Introducing students to the theory, practice, and history of artand emphasizing art's impact on everyday lifeArtforms is known for its accurate color reproductions, clean design, and meticulous editing style. Newest co-author, Patrick Frank, brings expertise in Modern and contemporary art, Islamic art and architecture and Latin American art. The Seventh Edition now builds a bridge to the digital world with a CD-ROM containing feature artist interviews included free with each copy of the text.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments	4
PART ONE Art is...	1	(38)
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	(24)
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	(3)
Essay: Early Encounters with the Artist Within	21	(2)
Untrained and Folk Artists	23	(3)
Trained Artists	26	(1)
Visual Communication	26	(1)
Art and Appearances	26	(5)
Form and Content	31	(1)
Seeing and Responding to Form	32	(3)
Biography: A Personal Vision	34	(1)
Georgia O'Keeffe
Iconography	35	(4)
Artists at Work	38	(1)
Carlos Fresquez
PART TWO The Language of Visual Experience	39	(72)
Visual Elements	40	(32)
Line	41	(3)
Shape	44	(2)
Mass	46	(3)
Biography: Going Beyond Tradition	48	(1)
Henry Moore
Space	49	(7)
Time and Motion	56	(3)
Artists at Work: Jones and Ginzel	57	(2)
Light	59	(3)
Color	62	(7)
Texture	69	(3)
Principles of Design	72	(19)
Unity and Variety	72	(3)
Balance	75	(5)
Emphasis and Subordination	80	(1)
Directional Forces	80	(2)
Contrast	82	(1)
Repetition and Rhythm	82	(2)
Scale and Proportion	84	(4)
Design Summary	88	(3)
Biography: Expression Is Foremost	90	(1)
Henri Matisse
Style	91	(13)
Cultural Style	92	(1)
Period Style	93	(2)
Regional Style	95	(2)
Group Style	97	(2)
Personal Style	99	(5)
Biography: Art as Social Conscience	101	(2)
Kathe Kollwitz
Biography: Found Joy as Source	103	(1)
Louise Nevelson
Evaluation and Criticism	104	(7)
Evaluation	104	(3)
Art Criticism	107	(4)
Biography: A Discriminating Eye	109	(1)
Robert Hughes
Essay: On Visiting and Art Museum	110	(1)
PART THREE Two-Dimensional Arts	111	(82)
Drawing	112	(14)
Biography: A Life's Work in Ten Years	117	(1)
Vincent van Gogh
Purposes of Drawing	118	(3)
Dry Media	121	(3)
Liquid Media	124	(2)
Painting	126	(13)
Watercolory	127	(3)
Tempera	130	(1)
Oil	130	(3)
Acrylic	133	(1)
Encaustic	134	(1)
Fresco	135	(4)
Essay: Art as Activism: The Great Wall of Los Angeles	137	(2)
Printmaking	139	(14)
Relief	140	(2)
Intaglio	142	(4)
Lithography	146	(4)
Screenprinting	150	(1)
Current Directions	151	(2)
Essay: Handmade Originals in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction	152	(1)
Camera Arts and Computer Imaging	153	(30)
Photography	153	(12)
Biography: ``A Photographer at My Very Core:''	162	(3)
Margaret Bourke-White
Film: The Moving Image	165	(10)
Television and Video	175	(2)
Digital Art Forms	177	(6)
Artists at Work	181	(1)
James Johnson
Essay: The Digital Revolution in the Art World	182	(1)
Graphic Design and Illustration	183	(10)
Design Disciplines	183	(1)
Graphic Design	184	(6)
Illustration	190	(3)
PART FOUR: Three-Dimensional Arts	193	(60)
Sculpture	194	(18)
Freestanding and Relief-Sculpture	197
Methods and Materials	196	(9)
Artists at Work	197	(8)
Scott Chamberlin
Kinetic Sculpture	205	(2)
Biography: Art That Moves	206	(1)
Alexander Calder
Mixed Media	207	(2)
Installations and Site-Specific Sculpture	209	(3)
Clay, Glass, Metal, Wood, Fiber	212	(17)
Clay	213	(5)
Biography: Shaping Her People's Heritage: Nampeyo	215	(3)
Glass	218	(1)
Metal	218	(3)
Wood	221	(1)
Fiber	222	(7)
Biography: Stitched into History	228	(1)
Faith Ringgold
Architecture and Environmental Design	229	(24)
Architecture	229	(21)
Biography: Deconstructing a Building	245	(4)
Zaha Hadid
Biography: Radical Innovator	249	(1)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Environmental Design	250	(3)
Essay: Where We Line	252	(1)
PART FIVE Art as Cultural Heritage	253	(118)
Prehistoric to Early Civilization	254	(7)
The Paleolithic Period	255	(3)
The Neolithic Period	258	(2)
The Beginnings of Civilization	260	(1)
Ancient Through Medieval in the Middle East and Europe	261	(25)
Mesopotamia	261	(2)
Egypt	263	(3)
Greece	266	(5)
Rome	271	(3)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art	274	(5)
The Middle Ages in Europe	279	(7)
Renaissance and Baroque, Europe	286	(28)
The Renaissance	286	(16)
Biography: The Artist as Scientist	293	(1)
Leonardo da Vinci
Biography: Temperamental Genius	294	(8)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Baroque	302	(12)
Biography: Insight and Compassion	306	(4)
Rembrandt van Rijn
Essay: Where Were the Women?	310	(2)
Essay: The Uphill Battle of Art Restoration	312	(2)
Traditional Arts of Asia	314	(27)
India	314	(7)
Southeast Asia	321	(3)
China	324	(10)
Biography: ``Strange and Great:'' Bada Shanren	333	(1)
Japan	334	(7)
The Islamic World	341	(8)
Arab Lands	342	(1)
Spain	343	(1)
Persia	344	(1)
India: The Mughal Empire	345	(4)
Biography: Islam's Greatest Architect: Sinan	348	(1)
Africa, Oceania, and The Americas	349	(22)
Africa	349	(7)
Oceania and Australia	356	(4)
Native North America	360	(6)
Biography: Warrior, Captive, and Artist	365	(1)
Howling Wolf
Pre-Columbian Central and South America	366	(5)
Essay: On Returning Cultural Property: Whose Culture: Whose Property?	370	(1)
PART SIX The Modern World	371	(124)
Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	372	(32)
Neoclassicism	372	(2)
Romanticism	374	(4)
Photography	378	(2)
Realism	380	(7)
Biography: Flouting Social Conventions	383	(4)
Rosa Bonheur
Impressionism	387	(6)
Biography: Devoted to Light	389	(4)
Claude Monet
The Post-Impressionist Period	393	(11)
Biography: Nature as Source	396	(5)
Paul Cezanne
Biography: Struggling Idealist	401	(3)
Paul Gauguin
Early Twentieth Century	404	(18)
Toward Abstraction	404	(4)
Essay: A Judge Confronts Abstract Sculpture: Brancusi vs the United States	407	(1)
The Fauves and Expressionism	408	(4)
Cubism	412	(6)
Biography: Restless Creativity	417	(1)
Pablo Picasso
The Modern Spirit in America	418	(2)
Futurism and the Celebration of Motion	420	(2)
Between World Wars	422	(21)
Dada	422	(3)
Fantasy and Metaphysics	425	(1)
Surrealism	426	(4)
Biography: Compelling Autobiographer	429	(1)
Frida Kahlo
The Influence of Cubism	430	(2)
Building a New Societhy	432	(3)
Political Protest	435	(5)
Biography: Painting for the People	438	(2)
Diego Rivera
American Painting	440	(3)
Accelerated Change: Modern Art After 1945	443	(30)
Abstract Expressionism and Related Art	443	(6)
Photography and Architecture at Mid-Century	449	(2)
Neo-Dada	451	(3)
Biography: Art and Ordinary Life	452	(2)
Robert Rauschenberg
Events and Happenings	454	(1)
Pop Art	455	(4)
Minimal and Hard-Edge	459	(2)
Conceptual Art	461	(1)
Site Works and Earthworks	461	(3)
Installations and Environments	464	(1)
Early Feminism	465	(3)
Performance Art	468	(1)
Artists at Work: Meirle Ukeles	469	(1)
Photorealist Painting and Superrealist Sculpture	469	(4)
Essay: Who Wants to Censor?	472	(1)
Recent Diversity	473	(22)
Postmodern Architecture	474	(2)
Painting	476	(3)
Photography	479	(2)
Sculpture	481	(2)
Public Art	483	(2)
Artists at Work	485	(1)
R. M. Fischer
Issue-Oriented Art	485	(4)
The Global Present	489	(6)
Timeline	495	(4)
Glossary	499	(7)
Pronunciation Guide	506	(2)
Notes	508	(3)
Suggested Readings	511	(2)
Suggested Websites	513	(2)
Index	515