Understanding Art (with ArtExperience CD-ROM)

by Fichner-Rathus, Lois

• ISBN13: 9780495006923
• ISBN10: 0495006920
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback w/CD-ROM
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

A market leading text for the art appreciation course, UNDERSTANDING ART combines its strong coverage of art history, with comprehensive coverage and presentation of the visual elements, principles of design, and media to provide a well-balanced discussion of the relevance and beauty of art and the media and methods used to produce art.

Table of Contents

Your Multimedia Resources	viii
Preface	xi
PART I. Introduction
What Is Art?	1	(24)
Art Creates Beauty	2	(1)
Art Enhances Our Environment	3	(1)
A Closer Look A Portrait in the Flesh	4	(2)
Art Reveals Truth	6	(1)
Art Immortalizes	7	(1)
Art Expresses Religious Beliefs	8	(2)
Art Expresses Fantasy	10	(1)
Art Stimulates the Intellect and Fires the Emotions	11	(1)
Art Creates Order and Harmony	12	(1)
Compare + Contrast The Piano Lesson(s) by Matisse and Bearden	13	(1)
Art Expresses Chaos	14	(1)
Art Records and Commemorates Experience	14	(3)
Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context	17	(2)
Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness	19	(2)
Art Elevates the Commonplace	21	(1)
Art Meets the Needs of the Artist	22	(3)
PART II. The Language of Art
Visual Elements of Art	25	(46)
Line	26	(9)
Characteristics of Line	26	(5)
Functions of Line	31	(4)
Shape, Volume, and Mass	35	(5)
Mass	37	(1)
Types of Shape	38	(2)
Compare + Contrast Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon with Colescott's Les Demoiselles d'Alabama: Vestidas	40	(6)
Light and Value	46	(4)
Chiaroscuro	48	(1)
Descriptive and Expressive Properties of Value	49	(1)
Color	50	(4)
Psychological Dimensions of Color: Hue, Value, and Saturation	50	(1)
Complementary versus Analogous Colors	51	(2)
Local versus Optical Color	53	(1)
Texture	54	(4)
Types of Texture	55	(3)
Space	58	(6)
Overlapping	58	(1)
Relative Size and Linear Perspective	59	(4)
Atmospheric Perspective	63	(1)
Time and Motion	64	(7)
Actual Motion	64	(1)
Implied Motion and Time	65	(1)
The Illusion of Motion	66	(5)
Principles of Design	71	(28)
Unity and Variety	72	(2)
Balance	74	(8)
Actual Balance and Pictorial Balance	75	(1)
Symmetrical Balance	76	(1)
Asymmetrical Balance	77	(2)
Horizontal, Vertical, and Radial Balance	79	(2)
Imbalance	81	(1)
Emphasis and Focal Point	82	(4)
Rhythm	86	(2)
Scale	88	(3)
Hierarchical Scaling	89	(1)
Distortion of Scale	90	(1)
A Closer Look Claes Oldenburg: On Clothespins, Baseball Bats, and Other Monuments	91	(2)
Proportion	93	(6)
The Canon of Proportions: ``Keeping Things in Proportion''	93	(1)
The Golden Mean	93	(3)
The Spiral	96	(3)
Style, Form, and Content	99	(14)
Style	100	(5)
Art, Culture, and Context	100	(4)
Realistic Art	104	(1)
Expressionistic Art	104	(1)
Abstract Art	104	(1)
Compare + Contrast Wood's American Gothic with Rosenthal's He Said. She Said	105	(2)
Form	107	(1)
Content	107	(1)
The Levels of Content	107	(1)
Compare + Contrast David's The Oath of the Horatii with Kruger's Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero)	108	(5)
Iconography	110	(3)
PART III. Two-Dimensional Media
Drawing	113	(18)
Categories of Drawing	114	(1)
Drawing Materials	115	(6)
Dry Media	115	(6)
A Closer Look Life, Death, and Dwelling in the Deep South	121	(2)
Fluid Media	122	(1)
A Closer Look Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World	123	(3)
Cartoons	126	(2)
New Approaches to Drawing	128	(3)
Painting	131	(14)
Paint	132	(1)
Types of Painting	132	(5)
Fresco	132	(1)
Encaustic	133	(1)
Tempera	134	(1)
Oil	134	(3)
Compare + Contrast The George Washingtons of Stuart and Lichtenstein	137	(2)
Acrylic	138	(1)
A Closer Look Superheroes: East Meets West	139	(3)
Watercolor	140	(1)
Spray Paint	141	(1)
Mixed Media	142	(3)
Printmaking	145	(14)
Methods of Printmaking	146	(1)
Relief	146	(1)
Woodcut	146	(1)
Wood Engraving	146	(1)
Compare + Contrast Hiroshige's Rain Shower on Ohashi Bridge with Xiaomo's Family by the Lotus Pond	147	(1)
Intaglio	148	(4)
Engraving	149	(1)
Drypoint	149	(1)
Etching	150	(2)
A Closer Look Hung Liu: Chinese Traditions Unbound	152	(2)
Mezzotint and Aquatint	153	(1)
Other Etching Techniques	154	(1)
Lithography	154	(1)
Serigraphy	155	(1)
Monotype	156	(3)
Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts	159	(32)
Photography	160	(9)
Cameras	162	(1)
Film	162	(1)
Digital Photography	163	(1)
History of Photography	163	(6)
Compare + Contrast The Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima with the Raising of the Flag at the World Trade Center	169	(5)
Cinematography	174	(8)
Varieties of Cinematographic Techniques	174	(5)
Varieties of Cinematographic Experience	179	(3)
Video	182	(4)
Digital Art	186	(5)
PART IV. Three-Dimensional Media Sculpture	191	(78)
Sculpture	192	(23)
Subtractive and Additive Types of Sculpture	192	(4)
Carving	192	(1)
Modeling	193	(1)
Casting	193	(3)
Construction	196	(1)
Types of Materials	196	(2)
Stone	196	(1)
Wood	197	(1)
A Closer Look The Vietnam Veterans Memorial- A Woman's Perspective	198	(2)
Clay	200	(1)
Metal	200	(1)
Modern and Contemporary Materials and Methods	200	(8)
Constructed Sculpture	200	(1)
Assemblage	201	(1)
Readymades	202	(1)
Mixed Media	203	(1)
Kinetic Sculpture	204	(1)
Light Sculpture	205	(1)
Land Art	205	(2)
A Portfolio of More Recent Sculpture	207	(1)
A Closer Look Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005	208	(4)
Arttour New York	212	(3)
Architecture	215	(24)
Stone Architecture	216	(5)
Post-and-Lintel Construction	217	(2)
Arches	219	(1)
Vaults	220	(1)
Domes	220	(1)
Wood Architecture	221	(3)
Post-and-Beam Construction	222	(1)
Trusses	222	(1)
Balloon Framing	222	(2)
Cast-Iron Architecture	224	(1)
Steel-Cage Architecture	225	(3)
Reinforced Concrete Architecture	228	(2)
Steel-Cable Architecture	230	(2)
A Closer Look In Lights at Ground Zero, Steps toward Illumination	232	(1)
Shell Architecture	233	(1)
New Materials, New Visions	234	(2)
Arttour Chicago	236	(3)
Craft and Design	239	(30)
Ceramics	240	(6)
Methods of Working with Clay	240	(1)
The Potter's Wheel	241	(1)
Glazing	242	(2)
Types of Ceramics	244	(2)
Glass	246	(3)
Techniques of Working Glass	246	(3)
Fiber Arts	249	(1)
Weaving	249	(1)
A Closer Look The Chandeliers of Dale Chihuly	250	(3)
Basketry	253	(1)
Metalwork and Jewelry	253	(1)
A Closer Look The Fiber Arts of Faith Ringgold	254	(3)
Wood	257	(1)
Design	258	(8)
Graphic Design	258	(1)
Posters	258	(1)
Logos	259	(2)
Industrial Design	261	(1)
Web Design	261	(3)
Urban Design	264	(2)
Arttour Washington, D.C.	266	(3)
PART V. Art Through The Ages The Art of The Ancients	269	(164)
The Art of the Ancients	269	(28)
Prehistoric Art	270	(1)
Map 12-1 Prehistoric Europe	270	(4)
Upper Paleolithic Art	270	(2)
Mesolithic Art	272	(1)
Neolithic Art	273	(1)
Art of the Ancient Near East	274	(1)
Sumer	274	(1)
Map 12-2 The Ancient Near East	274	(5)
Akkad	276	(1)
Babylonia	277	(1)
Assyria	278	(1)
Persia	278	(1)
Egyptian Art	279	(6)
Old Kingdom	279	(4)
Middle Kingdom	283	(1)
New Kingdom	283	(1)
The Amarna Revolution: The Reign of Akhenaton and Nefertiti	284	(1)
A Closer Look King Tut: The Face That Launched a Thousand High-Res Images	285	(3)
Aegean Art	288	(1)
Map 12-3 Greece (Fifth Century Bce)	288	(6)
The Cyclades	288	(1)
Crete	289	(2)
Mycenae	291	(3)
Arttour Jerusalem	294	(3)
Classical Art: Greece and Rome	297	(32)
Greece	298	(2)
Geometric Period	298	(1)
Archaic Period	299	(1)
A Closer Look The Women Weavers of Ancient Greece	300	(14)
Early Classical Art	305	(1)
Classical Art	306	(4)
Late Classical Art	310	(2)
Hellenistic Art	312	(2)
The Etruscans	314	(1)
Architecture	314	(1)
Sculpture	314	(1)
Rome	315	(1)
The Republican Period	315	(1)
Map 13-1 The Roman Empire (Second Century Ce)	315	(5)
The Early Empire	318	(2)
Compare + Contrast Stadium Designs: Thumbs-Up or Thumbs-Down?	320	(6)
The Late Empire	324	(2)
ARTTOUR Rome	326	(3)
Christian Art: From Catacombs to Cathedrals	329	(22)
Early Christian Art	330	(1)
The Period of Persecution	330	(1)
The Period of Recognition	331	(1)
Byzantine Art	331	(3)
San Vitale, Ravenna	332	(1)
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople	332	(2)
Later Byzantine Art	334	(1)
Early Medieval Art	334	(2)
MAP 14-1 Europe (c. 800 CE)	336	(2)
Carolingian Art	336	(1)
Ottonian Art	337	(1)
Romanesque Art	338	(6)
Architecture	339	(3)
Sculpture	342	(1)
Manuscript Illumination	343	(1)
Tapestry	343	(1)
A CLOSER LOOK Hildegard of Bingen	344	(1)
Gothic Art	345	(6)
Architecture	345	(3)
Sculpture	348	(3)
The Renaissance	351	(32)
The Renaissance	352	(1)
MAP 15-1 Renaissance Europe (c. Sixteenth Century)	352	(1)
Fifteenth-Century Northern Painting	352	(5)
Flemish Painting: From Page to Panel	352	(4)
German Art	356	(1)
The Renaissance in Italy	357	(15)
The Early Renaissance	357	(1)
Cimabue and Giotto	357	(2)
The Renaissance Begins, and So Does the Competition	359	(4)
Renaissance Art at Midcentury and Beyond	363	(2)
The High Renaissance	365	(6)
High and Late Renaissance in Venice	371	(1)
COMPARE + CONTRAST The ``Davids'' of Donatello, Verrocchio, Michelangelo, and Bernini	372	(8)
High and Late Renaissance outside Italy	377	(1)
Mannerism	378	(2)
ARTTOUR Dallas/Fort Worth	380	(3)
The Age of Baroque	383	(24)
MAP 16-1 Europe (Mid-Eighteenth Century)	384	(1)
The Baroque Period in Italy	384	(2)
A CLOSER LOOK Art Meets History: The Funeral of a Pope	386	(6)
COMPARE + CONTRAST Susannah and the Elders by Tintoretto and Gentileschi	392	(2)
The Baroque Period outside Italy	394	(8)
Spain	394	(2)
Flanders	396	(1)
Holland	397	(3)
France	400	(2)
The Rococo	402	(2)
ARTTOUR London	404	(3)
Art Beyond the West	407	(26)
MAP 17-1 Art beyond the Western Tradition	408	(1)
African Art	408	(3)
COMPARE + CONTRAST Picasso's Nude with Drapery with an Etoumba Mask	411	(2)
Oceanic Art	413	(2)
Polynesia	414	(1)
Melanesia	414	(1)
Native Art of the Americas	415	(3)
Native Arts of Mexico	415	(3)
A CLOSER LOOK Cambios: The Clash of Cultures and the Artistic Fallout	418	(3)
Native Arts of Peru	419	(1)
Native Arts of the United States and Canada	419	(2)
Islamic Art	421	(1)
Indian Art	422	(4)
Chinese Art	426	(2)
Japanese Art	428	(5)
PART VI. Art in Modern and Postmodern Times Modern Art	433	(107)
Neoclassicism	434	(35)
Romanticism	436	(2)
COMPARE + CONTRAST Ingres's Grande Odalisque, Delacroix's Odalisque, Cezanne's A Modern Olympia, and Sleigh's Philip Golub Reclining	438	(4)
The Academy	440	(2)
Realism	442	(4)
COMPARE + CONTRAST Titian's Venus of Urbino, Manet's Olympia, Gauguin's Te Arii Vahine, Valadon's The Blue Room, and Eidos Interactive's Lara Croft	446	(2)
Impressionism	448	(4)
Postimpressionism	452	(4)
A CLOSER LOOK Why Did van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?	456	(2)
Expressionism	458	(2)
American Expatriates	460	(1)
Americans in America	461	(2)
A CLOSER LOOK Weaving Together Biblical and Personal Stories	463	(1)
Art Nouveau	464	(1)
The Birth of Modern Sculpture	465	(1)
ARTTOUR Paris	466	(3)
The Twentieth Century: The Early Years	469	(26)
The Fauves	470	(2)
Expressionism	472	(2)
Die Brucke (The Bridge)	472	(1)
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)	473	(1)
The New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)	474	(1)
Cubism	474	(6)
Analytic Cubism	476	(2)
Synthetic Cubism	478	(1)
Cubist Sculpture	478	(2)
Futurism	480	(2)
Early Twentieth-Century Abstraction in the United States	482	(2)
Early Twentieth-Century Abstraction in Europe	484	(2)
Constructivism	484	(2)
Fantasy and Dada	486	(2)
COMPARE + CONTRAST Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Duchamp's Mona Lisa (L.H. O. O. Q), Odutokun's Dialogue with Mona Lisa, and Lee's Bona Lisa	488	(3)
Dada	490	(1)
Surrealism	491	(4)
Contemporary Art	495	(45)
Contemporary Art	496	(1)
Painting	496	(1)
The New York School: The First Generation	496	(8)
Turning the Corner toward an Abstract Expressionism	496	(2)
Focus on Gesture	498	(3)
Focus on the Color Field	501	(1)
Combined Gesture and Color-Field Painting	502	(2)
The New York School: The Second Generation	504	(1)
Color-Field Painting	504	(1)
Minimal Art	504	(1)
Figurative Painting	505	(2)
Pop Art	507	(2)
Photorealism	509	(2)
Op Art (Optical Painting)	511	(1)
New Image Painting	511	(2)
Pattern Painting	513	(1)
The Shaped Canvas	513	(1)
Neo-Expressionism	514	(2)
Sculpture	516	(6)
Sculpture at Mid-Twentieth Century	516	(1)
Contemporary Figurative Sculpture	517	(2)
Contemporary Abstract Sculpture	519	(3)
COMPARE + CONTRAST Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Kollwitz's Outbreak, Catlett's Harriet, and Goya's And They Are Like Wild Beasts	522	(2)
Feminist Art	524	(3)
Deconstructivist Architecture	527	(1)
A Closer look Guerrilla Girl Warfare	528	(3)
A Portfolio of Art in the New Millennium	531	(3)
A CLOSER LOOK Jacques-Louis David on a Brooklyn Tennis Court	534	(6)
Glossary	540	(10)
Index	550