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