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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Discovering Art CD-Rom - An Overview | |
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| Art is | |
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| The Nature of Art | |
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| What Is Art? | |
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| Is Art a Necessity? | |
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| Purposes and Functions of Art | |
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| Biography: Jazz, Memory, and Metaphor: Romare Bearden | |
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| Awareness, Creativity, and Communication | |
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| Visual Thinking | |
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| Perception and Awareness | |
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| Looking and Seeing | |
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| Aesthetics, Art, and Beauty | |
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| Art and Experience | |
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| Creativity | |
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| Essay: Early Encounters with the Artist Within | |
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| Untrained and Folk Artists | |
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| Trained Artists | |
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| Visual Communication | |
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| Art and Appearances | |
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| Form and Content | |
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| Seeing and Responding to Form | |
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| Biography: A Personal Vision: Georgia O'Keeffe | |
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| Iconography | |
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| Artists at Work: Carlos Fresquez | |
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| The Language of Visual Experience | |
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| Visual Elements | |
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| Line | |
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| Shape | |
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| Mass | |
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| Biography: Going Beyond Tradition: Henry Moore | |
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| Space | |
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| Time and Motion | |
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| Artists at Work: Jones and Ginzel | |
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| Light | |
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| Color | |
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| Texture | |
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| Principles of Design | |
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| Unity and Variety | |
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| Balance | |
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| Emphasis and Subordination | |
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| Directional Forces | |
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| Contrast | |
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| Repetition and Rhythm | |
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| Scale and Proportion | |
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| Design Summary | |
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| Biography: Expression Is Foremost: Henri Matisse | |
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| Style | |
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| Cultural Style | |
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| Period Style | |
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| Regional Style | |
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| Group Style | |
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| Personal Style | |
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| Biography: Art as Social Conscience: Kathe Kollwitz | |
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| Biography: Found Joy as Source: Louise Nevelson | |
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| Evaluation and Criticism | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Art Criticism | |
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| Biography: A Discriminating Eye: Robert Hughes | |
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| Essay: On Visiting an Art Museum | |
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| Two-Dimensional Arts | |
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| Drawing | |
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| Biography: A Life's Work in Ten Years: Vincent van Gogh | |
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| Purposes of Drawing | |
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| Dry Media | |
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| Liquid Media | |
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| Painting | |
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| Watercolor | |
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| Tempera | |
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| Oil | |
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| Acrylic | |
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| Encaustic | |
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| Fresco | |
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| Essay: Art as Activism: The Great Wall of Los Angeles | |
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| Printmaking | |
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| Relief | |
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| Intaglio | |
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| Lithography | |
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| Screenprinting | |
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| Current Directions | |
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| Essay: Handmade Originals in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
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| Camera Arts and Computer Imaging | |
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| Photography | |
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| Biography: "A Photographer at My Very Core:" Margaret Bourke-White | |
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| Film: The Moving Image | |
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| Television and Video | |
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| Digital Art Forms | |
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| Artists at Work: James Johnson | |
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| Essay: The Digital Revolution in the Art World | |
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| Graphic Design and Illustration | |
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| Design Disciplines | |
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| Graphic Design | |
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| Illustration | |
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| Three-Dimensional Arts | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Freestanding and Relief Sculpture | |
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| Methods and Materials | |
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| Artists at Work: Scott Chamberlin | |
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| Kinetic Sculpture | |
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| Biography: Art That Moves: Alexander Calder | |
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| Mixed Media | |
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| Installations and Site-Specific Sculpture | |
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| Clay, Glass, Metal, Wood, Fiber | |
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| Clay | |
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| Biography: Shaping Her People's Heritage: Nampeyo | |
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| Glass | |
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| Metal | |
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| Wood | |
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| Fiber | |
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| Biography: Stitched into History: Faith Ringgold | |
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| Architecture and Environmental Design | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Biography: Deconstructing a Building: Zaha Hadid | |
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| Biography: Radical Innovator: Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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| Environmental Design | |
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| Essay: Where We Live | |
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| Art as Cultural Heritage | |
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| Prehistoric to Early Civilization | |
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| The Paleolithic Period | |
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| The Neolithic Period | |
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| The Beginnings of Civilization | |
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| Ancient Through Medieval in the Middle East and Europe | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Greece | |
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| Rome | |
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| Early Christian and Byzantine Art | |
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| The Middle Ages in Europe | |
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| Renaissance and Baroque, Europe | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Biography: The Artist as Scientist: Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| Biography: Temperamental Genius: Michelangelo Buonarroti | |
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| Baroque | |
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| Biography: Insight and Compassion: Rembrandt van Rijn | |
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| Essay: Where Were the Women? | |
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| Essay: The Uphill Battle of Art Restoration | |
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| Traditional Arts of Asia | |
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| India | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| China | |
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| Biography: "Strange and Great:" Bada Shanren | |
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| Japan | |
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| The Islamic World | |
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| Arab Lands | |
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| Spain | |
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| Persia | |
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| India: The Mughal Empire | |
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| Biography: Islam's Greatest Architect: Sinan | |
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| Africa, Oceania, and the Americas | |
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| Africa | |
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| Oceania and Australia | |
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| Native North America | |
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| Biography: Warrior, Captive, and Artist: Howling Wolf | |
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| Pre-Columbian Central and South America | |
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| Essay: On Returning Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? | |
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| The Modern World | |
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| Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Neoclassicism | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| Photography | |
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| Realism | |
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| Biography: Flouting Social Conventions: Rosa Bonheur | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| Biography: Devoted to Light: Claude Monet | |
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| The Post-Impressionist Period | |
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| Biography: Nature as Source: Paul Cezanne | |
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| Biography: Struggling Idealist: Paul Gauguin | |
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| Early Twentieth Century | |
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| Toward Abstraction | |
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| Essay: A Judge Confronts Abstract Sculpture: Brancusi vs the United States | |
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| The Fauves and Expressionism | |
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| Cubism | |
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| Biography: Restless Creativity: Pablo Picasso | |
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| The Modern Spirit in America | |
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| Futurism and the Celebration of Motion | |
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| Between World Wars | |
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| Dada | |
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| Fantasy and Metaphysics | |
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| Surrealism | |
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| Biography: Compelling Autobiographer: Frida Kahlo | |
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| The Influence of Cubism | |
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| Building a New Society | |
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| Political Protest | |
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| Biography: Painting for the People: Diego Rivera | |
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| American Painting | |
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| Accelerated Change: Modern Art After 1945 | |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Related Art | |
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| Photography and Architecture at Mid-Century | |
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| Neo-Dada | |
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| Biography: Art and Ordinary Life: Robert Rauschenberg | |
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| Events and Happenings | |
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| Pop Art | |
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| Minimal and Hard-Edge | |
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| Conceptual Art | |
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| Site Works and Earthworks | |
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| Installations and Environments | |
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| Early Feminism | |
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| Performance Art | |
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| Artists at Work: Meirle Ukeles | |
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| Photorealist Painting and Superrealist Sculpture | |
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| Essay: Who Wants to Censor? | |
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| Recent Diversity | |
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| Postmodern Architecture | |
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| Painting | |
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| Photography | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Public Art | |
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| Artists at Work: R. M. Fischer | |
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| Issue-Oriented Art | |
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| The Global Present | |
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| Essay: Cultural Casualties of September 11 | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Pronunciation Guide | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Websites | |
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| Index | |