Looking at Art

Name: Looking at Art
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ISBN: 9780130340528

ISBN-10: 0130340529

ISBN-13: 9780130340528

Edition: 2003

Authors: Laurie Schneider Adams

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Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




The Appeal of Art



The Aims of Art


Decorating the Environment


Recording the Past


Religious Art


Political Art


Images that Heal, Destroy, Protect and Warn Advertising Images



Style and the Formal Elements of Art


Line and Shape


Sculpure:Davidby Donatello and by Bernini


Painting: Castagno's


David


Color


Light and Dark


Texture


Space and Shape as Context and Illusion


Linear Perspective


Eastern Perspective Systems


Architecture as Form and Function



Artists at Work: Convention and Training


The Aesthetic Context: Convention


The Cultural Context: How Artists Learn


The Cult of Bohemia and the Artists as Rebel


The Artists as Individual: Jackson Pollock



Themes of Art


The Divine Circle


The Circle as a Sign of Burial


The Column


The Iconographic Theme



Art In and Out of Context


Narrative Context


Architectural Context


The Museum as Context


The Archaeological Dig as Museum and Context


The Natural Context


The Urban Context: Site, Politics, Economics, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude



Approaches to Art


Formalism


Iconography


Marxism


Feminism


Semiotics


Biography and Autobiography


Psychoanalysis



Arguing about Art


Art and Politics


Aesthetic Quarrels


Iconoclasm