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Tables of Contents for Visual Artsguide
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Introduction: Where Are We Going?
1
1
How Do I Use This Book and Learn about Art?
1
1
What Happens When We Connect to the World Wide Web?
1
1
How Do I Pronounce All the Names and Terms?
2
1
How Do We Put This Study in Context?
2
4
What Does Art Do?
6
18
What's in This Chapter?
6
1
What Concerns Art?
6
4
Creativity
7
1
Aesthetic Communication
8
1
Symbols
9
1
Fine and Applied Art
10
1
To What Purposes and Functions?
10
4
Enjoyment
11
1
Political and Social Commentary
11
2
Artifact
13
1
How Should We Perceive and Respond?
14
1
Can We Figure Out Style?
15
4
How Do We Live with Art?
19
5
How Is Art Put Together?
24
20
What's in This Chapter?
24
1
How Does Composition Work?
24
11
Elements of Composition
24
7
Principles of Composition
31
4
What Other Factors Affect Us?
35
9
Perspective
36
2
Content
38
1
Articulation
39
1
Chiaroscuro
39
1
Dynamics
40
2
Trompe l'oeil
42
1
Juxtaposition
43
1
Can We See in Two Dimensions? Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking
44
18
What's in This Chapter?
44
1
Drawing Is the Basis
45
3
Dry Media
45
1
Liquid Media
46
2
Painting Is the Dominant Form
48
3
Oils
48
1
Watercolor
48
1
Tempera
49
1
Acrylics
50
1
Fresco
50
1
Prints Offer Multiple Opportunities
51
9
Relief Printing
54
2
Intaglio
56
2
Planographic Processes
58
2
Building a Basic Analysis
60
2
Can We Handle Three Dimensions? Sculpture and Decorative Arts and Crafts
62
18
What's in This Chapter?
62
1
Sculpture---What's in a Form?
62
14
Dimensionality
63
2
Methods of Execution
65
6
Factors Influencing Response
71
5
What Are Decorative Arts and Crafts?
76
3
Building a Basic Analysis
79
1
Getting Next to Structures: Architecture
80
23
What's in This Chapter?
80
1
How Is Architecture Put Together?
81
16
Structure Systems
82
5
Building Materials
87
3
Line, Repetition, and Balance
90
4
Scale and Proportion
94
1
Context
95
1
Space
96
1
Climate
96
1
How Can We Respond to Architecture?
97
3
Controlled Vision and Symbolism
97
1
Style
98
1
Apparent Function
98
1
Dynamics
99
1
Building a Basic Analysis
100
3
The Flicker of Camera Art: Photography and Cinema
103
13
What's in This Chapter?
103
1
Photography---Capturing Images through a Lens
103
4
Photography as Art
103
2
Photography as Documentary
105
1
Photographic Techniques
106
1
Cinematography---Like Life in a Can
107
7
Basic Cinema Types
109
1
Basic Cinema Techniques
110
3
Other Factors
113
1
Building a Basic Analysis
114
2
From Order and Restraint to Spirituality: Greek Classical, Hellenistic, Roman Classical, Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque, and Gothic Art, c. 500 B.C.E.-c. 1400 C.E.
116
19
What's in This Chapter?
116
1
Greek Classicism---A Predominance of Form over Feeling
117
4
Classical Painting
117
1
Classical Sculpture
117
2
Architecture
119
2
Hellenistic Style---The Emergence of Feeling
121
1
Sculpture
121
1
Architecture
121
1
Imperial Roman Classicism---Emulation of the Greeks
121
5
Sculpture
123
1
Architecture
123
3
Byzantine Styles---Infusing Spirituality into Art
126
2
Mosaics
126
1
Architecture
127
1
Islamic Tradition---Art as a Holy Place
128
1
Romanesque Style---Art in Service to the Christian Church
129
2
Gothic Style---Letting in the Light
131
4
Painting
131
1
Architecture
132
1
Sculpture
133
2
From Rebirth to Rationalism: Renaissance to Enlightenment, c. 1400-c. 1800
135
21
What's in This Chapter?
135
1
The Renaissance---The Individual Reborn
135
9
Renaissance Painting in Florence
136
1
Renaissance Sculpture in Florence
137
2
Architecture
139
1
The High Renaissance in Rome
139
3
Mannerism
142
2
The Baroque---Ornateness and Emotion
144
6
Painting
144
3
Sculpture
147
1
Architecture
147
3
The Enlightenment---Confidence in the Power of Reason
150
6
Rococo Style
151
2
Neoclassicism
153
3
Fragmenting Images, Emotions, and Individualism: Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and Art Nouveau, c. 1800-c. 1900
156
15
What's in This Chapter?
156
1
Romanticism---The Maximum in Anticlassicism
156
5
Painting
157
3
Sculpture
160
1
Architecture
160
1
Realism---Objective Observations of Objective Reality
161
3
Courbet
162
1
Manet
162
2
Impressionism---Common Passions in Pursuit of Spontaneity
164
1
Monet
164
1
Renoir
164
1
Morisot
165
1
Postimpressionism---A Diversity of Personalism
165
5
Cezanne
167
1
Seurat
167
1
Gauguin
167
1
Van Gogh
168
2
Art Nouveau---Popular Art in Whiplash
170
1
Viva Innovation and Experimentation: An Explosion of Art in the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century, c. 1900-c. 1960
171
22
What's in This Chapter?
171
1
Expressionism---Joint Reactions
172
1
Cubism---Visual Fragmentation
173
2
Mechanism and Futurism---Dynamic Machines
175
1
Abstraction---The Dissolving Image
176
2
Dada---Antiart Art?
178
1
Surrealism---The Unconscious Mind
178
2
The Harlem Renaissance
180
1
American Painting---A Wealth of Diversity
181
1
Abstract Expressionism---From Brushwork to Content
182
1
Pop Art---From Where We Live
183
1
Minimalism---Reductio Ad Infinitum
184
1
Architecture---Experiments in Modernism
185
5
Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
185
1
Le Corbusier
186
1
Bauhaus
187
2
After World War II
189
1
Cinema and Neorealism
190
3
Pluralism in a Postmodern World: c. 1960-Present
193
What's in This Chapter?
193
1
Painting and Sculpture
194
1
Neo-Expressionism
195
Feminism
195
3
Environments, Earthworks, and Installations
198
2
Video Art
200