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| Preface | |
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| Learning to See | |
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| Understanding Art | |
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| What is Art? | |
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| The Creative Impulse | |
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| Types of Art | |
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| Content | |
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| Critical Opinion | |
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| Lasting Greatness in Art | |
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| Visual Elements | |
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| Line | |
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| Shape and Form | |
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| Space | |
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| Texture | |
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| Value and Light | |
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| Chiaroscuro | |
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| Color | |
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| Time | |
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| Organizing Principles of Design | |
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| Repetition | |
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| Variety | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Balance | |
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| Compositional Unity | |
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| Emphasis | |
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| Economy | |
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| Proportion | |
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| Relationship to the Environment | |
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| Two-Dimensional Media and Methods | |
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| Drawing | |
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| Approaches to Drawing | |
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| Dry Media | |
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| Liquid Media | |
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| Painting | |
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| Approaches to Painting | |
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| Paint Media | |
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| Mixed Media | |
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| Printmaking | |
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| Approaches to Printmaking | |
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| Printmaking Processes | |
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| Mixed Print Media | |
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| Graphic Design | |
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| The Graphic Designer and Visual Ideas | |
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| Typography | |
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| Illustration | |
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| Photography and Filmmaking | |
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| Photography | |
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| Film | |
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| Television and Video | |
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| Digital Art | |
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| The Computer as a Drawing Medium | |
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| The Computer as a Painting Medium | |
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| The Computer in Three-Dimensional Art | |
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| Video Graphics | |
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| Virtual Reality | |
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| The Computer as a Unique Art Medium | |
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| Interactive Art in Cyberspace; Art Websites | |
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| Three-Dimensional Media and Methods | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Planning Sculptures | |
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| Carving | |
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| Modeling | |
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| Casting | |
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| Assembling | |
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| Earthworks | |
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| Crafts | |
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| Clay | |
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| Metal | |
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| Wood | |
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| Glass | |
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| Fibers | |
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| Product and Clothing Design | |
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| Industrial Design | |
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| Clothing Design | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Architects Unique Concerns | |
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| Function | |
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| Structure | |
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| Designed Settings | |
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| Interior Design | |
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| Environmental Design | |
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| Aesthetics in the Performing Arts | |
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| Art in Time | |
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| Historical Styles in Western Art | |
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| Art Movements | |
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| The Beginnings of Western Art | |
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| Art of Ancient Cultures | |
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| Medieval Art | |
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| Renaissance Art | |
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| Baroque Art | |
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| Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Art | |
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| Later Nineteenth-Century Art | |
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| Realism | |
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| Twentieth-Century Art | |
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| Abstract and Nonobjective Art | |
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| Understanding Art on All Levels | |
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| Picassos Guernica | |
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| Rodins Gates of Hell | |
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| Michelangelos Sistine Chapel Ceiling | |
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| Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Notes | |
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| Glossary/ Pronunciation Guide | |
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| Artists Pronunciation Guide | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |
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| Timeline 30,000 B. C. A. D. 2000 | |
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| Tables 35,000 B. C. A. D. | |
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| Prehistoric to Roman | |
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| 5001500 Early Christian to Gothic | |
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| 14251640 Early Renaissance to Southern Baroque | |
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| 15001800 Northern Renaissance to Rococo | |
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| 17501950 Neoclassicism to Surrealism | |
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| 19452000+ Into the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Maps The Prehistoric and Ancient World | |
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| Europe in the Early Twelfth Century | |
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| Renaissance Italy | |
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| Northern Europe in the mid-Seventeenth Century | |
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| Europe in the mid-Nineteenth Century | |
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| The World in the Late Twentieth Century | |