Launching the Imagination 2D

by STEWART

• ISBN13: 9780073327303
• ISBN10: 0073327301
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-21
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-Dimensional Design, Launching the Imagination offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, known as Profiles, introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteria for excellence from a remarkable group of masters. Launching the Imagination is available in a comprehensive volume treating 2D design, Creativity and Problem-solving, 3D design, and time-based (4D) design; or in split volumes containing either 2D or 3D design, plus the material on Creativity and Problem-solving.This edition of Launching the Imagination moves the content of the Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center. With free access, this website, which engages students interactively with the elements and principles of art through numerous interactive exercises, has been re-organized and expanded.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Two-Dimensional Design

Basic Elements

Line Shape Texture Value Profile: Phillia Yi, Printmaker

The Element of Color

Color Theory

Color Physics

Color Interaction

Defining Color

Color Schemes

Composing with Color

Color, Emotion, and Expression

Profile: Ann Baddley Keister, Fiber Artist

Principles of Two-Dimensional Design

Unity and Variety Balance Scale and Proportion Rhythm Movement Emphasis

Profile

Illusion Of Space And Illusion of Motion

Creating the Illusion of Space

Animated Space: ConstructingMulan

The Illusion of Movement

Profile

Concepts and Critical Thinking

Cultivating Creativity

Design and Creativity Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking Goal Setting Time Management

Profile

Problem Seeking and Problem Solving

Problem Seeking Convergent and Divergent Thinking Brainstorming Visual Research Variations on a Theme

An Open Mind Habits of Mind

Habits of Work

Profile

Developing Critical Thinking

Establishing Criteria Form, Subject, and Contents Stop, Look, Listen, Learn

Types of Critiques Developing a Long-Term Project Turn up the Heat: Pushing Your Project's Potential Concept and Composition Accepting Responsibility

Profile

Constructing Meaning

Building Bridges Purpose and Intent Context Connections Aesthetics Drama

Profile

Notes

Glossary

Credits

Index

Each chapter includes: Key Questions interspersed throughout, Summaries, and Key Terms

Students who buy the Third Edition will have access to McGraw-Hill's

MyArtStudio, a website with dozens of interactions that allow students to study and experiment with various elements and principles of art, and to view videos of art techniques and artists at work

(This website is adapted from the Core Concepts CD-ROM of the previous two editions. The new online format is redesigned and is now even easier to use.)

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