Living with Art

by Getlein, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780073379258
• ISBN10: 0073379255
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780077376222, 9781265594855
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-19
• Publisher: MCGRAW HILL
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Summary

Living with Art'sapproach to art appreciation supports students' acquisition of the essential skills of the course. Mark Getlein's vivid narrative, in concert with McGraw-Hill's powerful adaptive learning program LearnSmart within CONNECT Art, helps students understand, analyze, and appreciatethe ways art work communicates to us in our visual world. In doing so, Living with Artprovides the foundation for a life-long appreciation of art, as well as critical thinking skills that will benefit students far beyond the classroom into their chosen careers. Students are invited to actively join in the discussion from Chapter 1. The narrative engages them in the stories of art, while the integrated digital assessments in CONNECT Art challenge them to build a fluency in the core vocabulary of the course; practice applying it in guided writing assignments; and ultimately prepare for active class participation and success on critical analysis, studio, and museum assignments. The result is greater engagement and greater course success. The result is greater engagement and greater course success.

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

1 Living with Art

The Impulse for Art

What Do Artists Do?

Creating and Creativity

Looking and Responding

ARTISTS: Maya Lin

ARTISTS: Vincent Van Gogh

2 What Is Art?

Artist and Audience

Art and Beauty

Art and Appearances

Art and Meaning

Art and Objects

THINKING ABOUT ART: Insiders and Outsiders

ARTISTS: Louise Bourgeois

THINKING ABOUT ART: Aesthetics

3 Themes of Art

The Sacred Realm

Politics and the Social Order

Stories and Histories

Looking Outward: The Here and Now

Looking Inward: The Human Experience

Invention and Fantasy

The Natural World

Art and Art

THINKING ABOUT ART: Iconoclasm

ARTISTS: Robert Rauschenberg

ARTISTS: Katsushika Hokusai

Part Two: The Vocabulary of Art

4 The Visual Elements

Line

Shape and Mass

Light

Color

Texture and Pattern

Space

Time and Motion

CROSSING CULTURES: Japanese Prints

THINKING ABOUT ART: Conservation

5 Principles of Design

Unity and Variety

Balance

Emphasis and Subordination

Scale and Proportion

Rhythm

Elements and Principles: A Summary

ARTISTS: Georgia O'Keeffe

THINKING ABOUT ART: Points of View

Part Three: Two-Dimensional Media

6 Drawing

Materials for Drawing

Drawing and Beyond: Paper as a Medium

ARTISTS: Leonardo

CROSSING CULTURES: Paper

7 Painting

Encaustic

Fresco

Tempera

Oil

Watercolor, Gouache, and Similar Media

Acrylic

Painting and Beyond: Off the Wall!

Sumptuous Images: Mosaic and Tapestry

ARTISTS: Jacob Lawrence

8 Prints

Relief

Intaglio

Lithography

Screenprinting

Monotype

Inkjet

Recent Directions: Printing on the World

ARTISTS: Albrecht Durer

ARTISTS: Kathe Kollwitz

9 Camera and Computer Arts

Photography

Film

Video

The Internet

THINKING ABOUT ART: Censorship

10 Graphic Design

Signs and Symbols

Typography and Layout

Word and Image

Motion and Interactivity

Graphic Design and Art

Part Four: Three-Dimensional Media

11 Sculpture and Installation

Methods and Materials of Sculpture

The Human Figure in Sculpture

Working with Time and Place

CROSSING CULTURES: Primitivism

ARTISTS: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

12 Arts of Ritual and Daily Life

Clay

Glass

Metal

Wood

Fiber

Ivory, Jade, and Lacquer

Art, Craft, Design

ARTISTS: Maria Martinez

ARTISTS: Olowe of Ise

CROSSING CULTURES: Export Arts

13 Architecture

Structural Systems in Architecture

New Technologies, New Materials, Current Concerns

Imagining Architecture

ARTISTS: Zaha Hadid

ARTISTS: Frank Lloyd Wright

Part Five: Arts in Time

14 Ancient Mediterranean Worlds

The Oldest Art

Mesopotamia

Egypt

The Aegean

The Classical World: Greece and Rome

THINKING ABOUT ART: Whose Grave?

THINKING ABOUT ART: The Marbles and the Museums

15 Christianity and the Formation of Europe

The Rise of Christianity

Byzantium

The Middle Ages in Europe

Toward the Renaissance

16 The Renaissance

The Early and High Renaissance in Italy

The Renaissance in the North

The Late Renaissance in Italy

ARTISTS: Michelangelo

17 The 17th and 18th Centuries

The Baroque Era

The 18th Century

Revolution

ARTISTS: Artemisia Gentileschi

ARTISTS: Rembrandt

THINKING ABOUT ARTISTS: Academies

ARTISTS: Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun

18 Arts of Islam and of Africa

Arts of Islam

Arts of Africa

CROSSING CULTURES: Africa Looks Back

19 Arts of Asia: India, China, and Japan

Arts of India

Arts of China

Arts of Japan

CROSSING CULTURES: The Early Buddha Image

20 Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas

Pacific Cultures

The Americas

21 The Modern World: 1800-1945

Neoclassicism and Romanticism

Realism

Manet and Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Bridging the Atlantic: American in the 19th Century

Into the 20th Century: The Avant-Garde

World War I and After: Dada and Surrealism

Between the Wars: Building New Societies

THINKING ABOUT ART: Presenting the Past

ARTISTS: Henri Matisse

ARTISTS: Pablo Picasso

22 From Modern to Postmodern

The New York School

Into the Sixties: Assemblage and Happenings

Art of the Sixties and Seventies

Art since the Eighties: Postmodern World?

ARTISTS: Jackson Pollock

ARTISTS: Andy Warhol

ARTISTS: Alice Neel

THINKING ABOUT ART: The Guerrilla Girls

23 Opening Up to the World

THINKING ABOUT ART: Visual Culture