Living with Art (PKG)

by Gilbert, Rita

• ISBN13: 9780079132123
• ISBN10: 007913212X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

Known for its clear writing, diversity of art coverage, and elegant design, this superb reference offers a comprehensive, transcendentally illustrated introduction to the themes, design elements and principles, media, and history of art. New features and improvements, along with the highest production standards in paper, color quality, and binding, mark this fifth edition as the gold standard in its field.

Table of Contents

PART ONE INTRODUCTION	2	(80)
CHAPTER 1 LIVING WITH ART	3	(15)
THE IMPULSE FOR ART	4	(3)
THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST	7	(3)
THE ROLE OF THE OBSERVER	10	(8)
ARTISTS VINCENT VAN GOGH	13
ART PEOPLE GERTRUDE STEIN	14
ARTISTS HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC	17
CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS ART?	18	(28)
ART AND THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER	20	(16)
Art and the Artist	21	(3)
Art and Beauty	24	(1)
Art and the "Real" World	25	(6)
Representational Art	28	(2)
Abstract Art	30	(1)
Nonrepresentational Art	31	(1)
Art as Expression	31	(5)
ART CONCEPTS	36	(10)
Form and Content	36	(1)
Style	36	(4)
Iconography	40	(6)
ART ISSUES PUBLIC ART	23
ARTISTS HENRI ROUSSEAU	29
ARTISTS JACKSON POLLOCK	35
ARTISTS ALBRECHT DURER	42
ART PEOPLE THEO VAN GOGH	45
CHAPTER 3 THEMES AND PURPOSES OF ART	46	(36)
ART IN THE SERVICE OF RELIGION	47	(4)
PRIDE AND POLITICS	51	(9)
ART AS THE MIRROR OF EVERYDAY LIFE	60	(3)
ART AND NATURE	63	(7)
IMAGINATION AND FANTASY	70	(4)
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, AND DEATH	74	(8)
ART ISSUES PROTECTING A MASTERPIECE: GUERNICA	57
ARTISTS PAUL CEZANNE	67
ARTISTS GEORGIA O'KEEFFE	69
PART TWO THE VOCABULARY OF ART	82	(72)
CHAPTER 4 THE VISUAL ELEMENTS	83	(43)
LINE	83	(9)
Functions of Line	84	(4)
Outline and Form	84	(1)
Movement and Emphasis	85	(1)
Direction	86	(1)
Pattern and Texture	87	(1)
Shading and Modeling	88	(1)
Types of Lines	88	(4)
Actual Lines	89	(1)
Implied Lines	90	(1)
Lines Formed by Edges	90	(2)
SHAPE AND MASS	92	(2)
LIGHT, VALUE, AND COLOR	94	(13)
Light	95	(1)
Actual Light	95	(1)
The Illusion of Light	96	(1)
Value	96	(2)
Color	98	(9)
Color Theory	99	(2)
Color Properties	101	(1)
Light and Pigment	101	(1)
Color Harmonies	102	(2)
Optical Effects of Color	104	(1)
Emotional Qualities of Color	105	(2)
TEXTURE	107	(3)
Actual Texture	108	(1)
Visual Texture	108	(1)
Pattern	109	(1)
SPACE	110	(10)
Three-Dimensional Space	110	(1)
Two-Dimensional Space	111	(9)
Spatial Organization	111	(1)
Illusion of Depth	112	(8)
TIME AND MOTION	120	(6)
Elapsed Time	122	(1)
Actual Motion	122	(1)
Illusion of Motion	123	(3)
ARTISTS RAPHAEL	91
ART ISSUES RESTORATION: THE LAST SUPPER	115
ARTISTS SUZANNE VALADON	121
ART PEOPLE GIORGIO VASARI	125
CHAPTER 5 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN IN ART	126	(28)
UNITY AND VARIETY	127	(4)
BALANCE	131	(7)
EMPHASIS AND FOCAL POINT	138	(4)
PROPORTION AND SCALE	142	(5)
RHYTHM	147	(5)
ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES: A SUMMARY	152	(2)
ARTISTS HENRI MATISSE	133
ARTISTS FRANCISCO DE GOYA	141
ART PEOPLE THE GUERRILLA GIRLS	151
PART THREE TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA	154	(110)
CHAPTER 6 DRAWING	155	(17)
MATERIALS FOR DRAWING	156	(11)
Dry Media	157	(4)
Pencil	157	(1)
Metalpoint	158	(1)
Charcoal	159	(1)
Chalk and Crayon	159	(2)
Liquid Media	161	(5)
Pen and Ink	161	(3)
Brush and Ink	164	(2)
New Drawing Media	166	(1)
PURPOSES OF DRAWING	167	(5)
Preliminary Study	167	(1)
Illustration	168	(1)
Expression	169	(3)
ARTISTS REMBRANDT	163
ARTISTS KATHE KOLLWITZ	165
ART ISSUES WHY DO WE LOSE ART?	171
CHAPTER 7 PAINTING	172	(17)
ENCAUSTIC	173	(1)
FRESCO	173	(2)
EGG TEMPERA	175	(3)
OIL	178	(4)
WATERCOLOR	182	(2)
GOUACHE	184	(1)
SYNTHETIC MEDIA	184	(3)
PAINTING-RELATED TECHNIQUES	187	(2)
Collage	187	(1)
Mosaic	188	(1)
ARTISTS JACOB LAWRENCE	177
ARTISTS ALICE NEEL	181
CHAPTER 8 PRINTS	189	(26)
RELIEF	190	(8)
Woodcut	191	(5)
Linocut	196	(1)
Wood Engraving	197	(1)
INTAGLIO	198	(5)
Engraving	198	(1)
Drypoint	199	(1)
Mezzotint	200	(1)
Etching	200	(2)
Aquatint	202	(1)
LITHOGRAPHY	203	(6)
SCREENPRINTING	209	(3)
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES	212	(3)
ARTISTS ON ARTISTS VAN GOGH ON HIROSHIGE	193
ARTISTS KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI	195
ARTISTS EDVARD MUNCH	207
ARTISTS ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG	208
ARTISTS ANDY WARHOL	211
CHAPTER 9 THE CAMERA ARTS: PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, AND VIDEO	215	(39)
PHOTOGRAPHY	216	(25)
The Still Camera and Its Beginnings	218	(1)
Subject Matter in Photography	218	(10)
Portraits	218	(4)
Landscape	222	(3)
Genre	225	(2)
Abstraction	227	(1)
Purposes of Photography	228	(8)
The "Art" Photograph	228	(3)
Photojournalism and Editorial Photography	231	(5)
Special Effects and Techniques	236	(3)
Photography and Motion	239	(2)
FILM	241	(11)
The Origins of Motion Pictures	241	(1)
Films and Filmmakers	242	(8)
Special Effects and Animation	250	(2)
VIDEO	252	(2)
ARTISTS JULIA MARGARET CAMERON	221
ARTISTS ALFRED STIEGLITZ	229
ART ISSUES CENSORSHIP: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE	232
ARTISTS ALFRED HITCHCOCK	248
CHAPTER 10 GRAPHIC DESIGN	254	(10)
THE TOOLS OF THE GRAPHIC DESIGNER	256	(2)
ADVERTISING	258	(1)
PRINT MEDIA: BOOKS AND MAGAZINES	259	(4)
GRAPHICS AND THE COMPUTER	263	(1)
ARTISTS NORMAN ROCKWELL	261
ARTISTS ON ARTISTS THE NEW YORKER ON PICASSO	262
PART FOUR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA	264	(80)
CHAPTER 11 SCULPTURE	265	(25)
METHODS OF SCULPTURE	266	(12)
Modeling	266	(1)
Casting	267	(3)
Carving	270	(3)
Assembling	273	(5)
SCULPTURE AND THE THIRD DIMENSION	278	(2)
THE HUMAN FIGURE IN SCULPTURE	280	(3)
SCULPTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT	283	(5)
MOTION, LIGHT, AND TIME	288	(2)
ARTISTS HENRY MOORE	271
ARTISTS DAVID SMITH	275
ARTISTS LOUISE NEVELSON	276
ARTISTS CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE	287
CHAPTER 12 CRAFTS	290	(15)
CLAY	291	(4)
GLASS	295	(2)
METAL	297	(3)
WOOD	300	(2)
FIBER	302	(3)
ARTISTS MARIA MARTINEZ	293
CHAPTER 13 ARCHITECTURE	305	(39)
STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS IN ARCHITECTURE	305	(18)
Load-Bearing Construction	306	(1)
Post-and-Lintel	307	(1)
Round Arch and Vault	308	(2)
Pointed Arch and Vault	310	(1)
Complex Arches	311	(1)
The Dome	312	(3)
Cast-Iron Construction	315	(2)
Balloon-Frame Construction	317	(1)
Steel-Frame Construction	317	(2)
Suspension	319	(1)
Reinforced-Concrete Construction	320	(1)
Geodesic Domes	321	(2)
PURPOSES OF ARCHITECTURE	323	(16)
Two Houses of Worship	323	(3)
Three Museums	326	(3)
Three Office Buildings	329	(3)
Two Hotels	332	(2)
Two Apartment Buildings	334	(1)
Three Houses	335	(4)
BEYOND THE BUILDING: ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN	339	(5)
ARTISTS R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER	322
ARTISTS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT	337
PART FIVE ARTS IN TIME	344	(193)
CHAPTER 14 THE ANCIENT WORLD	345	(20)
THE OLDEST ART	345	(3)
PREHISTORIC ART	348	(2)
MESOPOTAMIA	350	(4)
EGYPT	354	(6)
NUBIA	360	(1)
INDUS VALLEY	361	(1)
CHINA	361	(1)
MESOAMERICA	362	(1)
THE AEGEAN	363	(2)
ART ISSUES WHOSE GRAVE IS THIS ANYWAY?	359
CHAPTER 15 GREECE AND ROME	365	(15)
GREECE	365	(9)
THE ETRUSCANS	374	(1)
ROME	375	(5)
ART PEOPLE PERICLES	369
ART ISSUES RESTORATION: LAOCOON	373
CHAPTER 16 CHRISTIAN ART IN EUROPE: THE EARLY CHURCH, BYZANTIUM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES	380	(15)
THE EARLY CHRISTIANS	380	(2)
BYZANTIUM	382	(2)
THE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE	384	(11)
The Early Middle Ages	385	(3)
The High Middle Ages	388	(4)
The Late Middle Ages	392	(3)
ART PEOPLE HILDEGARD OF BINGEN	391
CHAPTER 17 THE RENAISSANCE	395	(30)
THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY	399	(18)
THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH	417	(4)
LATE 16TH-CENTURY EUROPE	421	(4)
ARTISTS LEONARDO DA VINCI	407
ARTISTS MICHELANGELO	409
ART PEOPLE VINCENZO PERUGIA	424
CHAPTER 18 THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES	425	(23)
THE BAROQUE STYLE IN EUROPE	425	(13)
THE 18TH CENTURY	438	(7)
REVOLUTION	445	(3)
ARTISTS GIANLORENZO BERNINI	427
ARTISTS PETER PAUL RUBENS	432
ARTISTS ON ARTISTS PICASSO ON VELAZQUEZ	435
ARTISTS ELISABETH VIGEE-LEBRUN	444
CHAPTER 19 THE MODERN WORLD: 1800-1945	448	(31)
FRANCE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY: NEOCLASSICISM, ROMANTICISM, REALISM	449	(5)
FRANCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY: MANET	454	(4)
IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM	458	(6)
BRIDGING THE ATLANTIC: LATE 19TH CENTURY	464	(2)
FRANCE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY: FAUVISM, CUBISM, AND OTHER MOVEMENTS	466	(4)
EARLY 20TH CENTURY: EXPRESSIONISM	470	(1)
SYNTHESIS AND AWAKENING: THE ARMORY SHOW	470	(3)
NEW YORK IN THE TWENTIES: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE	473	(2)
EUROPE DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR I: DADA AND SURREALISM	475	(2)
BETWEEN WORLD WARS: THE BAUHAUS	477	(2)
ARTISTS ROSA BONHEUR	455
ARTISTS EDOUARD MANET	457
ARTISTS PAUL GAUGUIN	463
ARTISTS PABLO PICASSO	468
CHAPTER 20 ART SINCE 1945	479	(25)
NEW YORK: 1945-1960	479	(7)
ART STYLES OF THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES	486	(6)
Pop Art	486	(1)
Minimal Art	487	(2)
Realism	489	(2)
Conceptual Art and Site Works	491	(1)
ART OF THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES	492	(9)
The Figure as Symbol	493	(1)
The Figure for Its Own Sake	494	(1)
Abstraction	495	(1)
Neo-Expressionism	495	(2)
Reference, Quotation, and Appropriation	497	(1)
Performance, Installations, and Combinations	498	(3)
TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM	501	(3)
ARTISTS LEE KRASNER	482
ART PEOPLE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL	503
CHAPTER 21 ART AROUND THE WORLD	504	(33)
THE ARTS OF ASIA	505	(17)
China	505	(7)
India and Southeast Asia	512	(5)
Japan	517	(5)
THE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS	522	(9)
Mesoamerica	523	(2)
South America	525	(1)
North America	526	(5)
AFRICA	531	(5)
OCEANIA	536	(11)
ART ISSUES RESTORATION: ANGKOR WAT	515
MAPS
THE ANCIENT WORLD	347
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST	350
GREECE IN THE AGE OF PERICLES	367
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT	375
EUROPE IN THE AGE OF CHARLEMAGNE	387
EUROPE IN RENAISSANCE	398
EUROPE ON THE BRINK OF REVOLUTION	440
HISTORICAL MAP OF ASIA	505
HISTORICAL MAP OF THE AMERICAS	522
HISTORICAL MAP OF AFRICA	531
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE	537	(2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READINGS	539	(3)
NOTES TO THE TEXT	542	(2)
GLOSSARY	544	(5)
INDEX	549	(8)
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS	557	(1)
THE "LIVING WITH ART" TEAM	558