Synopses & Reviews
Are your students as passionate about art as you are? If you're like most instructors who answered a resounding "no," this Ninth Edition of Understanding Art is the perfect means to help you jump start students' awareness and appreciation. With exceptionally balanced coverage of masterworks from the past and today's edgy new works, Understanding Art connects with students--capturing their attention with exciting images of fashion design from the runways of Paris, logos created by today's top advertising designers, and many of the cultural icons students are familiar with in their daily lives. And with the book's innovative, new "scale" feature, which is not available in any other art appreciation textbook, Lois Fichner-Rathus helps students easily visualize the true size of each work shown. THIS REPRINT ON HIGHER QUALITY PAPER HAS THE SAME CONTENT AS ISBN 0495569097 AT THE SAME PRICE.
Synopsis
A market leading, cutting edge 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.
About the Author
Lois Fichner-Rathus is Professor of Art in the Art Department of The College of New Jersey. She holds a combined undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history, an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and a Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include contemporary art, feminist art history and criticism, and modern art and architecture. She has authored grants, contributed to books, curated exhibitions, published articles in professional journals, and exhibited her large-format photographic prints. She is also the author of UNDERSTANDING ART, Tenth Edition, and FOUNDATIONS OF ART AND DESIGN. She resides in New York.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION. 1. What is Art? II. THE LANGUAGE OF ART. 2. Visual Elements.of Art. 3. Principles of Design. 4. Style, Form and Content. III. TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA. 5. Drawing. 6. Painting. 7. Printmaking. 8. Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts. IV. THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA. 9. Sculpture. 10. Site-Specific Art. 11. Architecture. 12. Craft and Design. V. ART THROUGH THE AGES. 13. The Art of the Ancients. 14. Classical Art: Greece and Rome. 15. Christian Art: From Catacombs to Cathedral. 16. The Renaissance. 17. The Age of Baroque. 18. Art beyond the West. VI. ART IN MODERN AND POSTMODERN TIMES. 19. Modern Art. 20. The Twentieth Century: The Early Years. 21. The Twentieth Century: Post-War to Post-Modern. 22. Art in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective. Glossary. Index. Photo Credits.