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Tables of Contents for Artsguide
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Getting Started
1
1
Experiencing the Arts
1
1
How to Use This Book
2
3
What are the Arts and How do we Evaluate and Describe Them?
5
14
What Is Art?
5
4
The Nature of Art
6
1
Art as Product, Process, and Experience
7
1
But Is It Really Art?
7
2
How Does Art Function?
9
2
Enjoyment
10
1
Political and Social Commentary
10
1
Therapy
10
1
Artifact
11
1
How Do We Evaluate Art?
11
4
Types of Criticism
12
2
Making Judgments
14
1
Finding Art in Life
15
4
Structures-Architecture
19
16
Function
19
1
Structure
20
7
Post-and-Lintel Structure
20
1
Arch.
21
5
Cantilever
26
1
Bearing Wall
26
1
Skeleton Frame
26
1
Building Materials
27
3
Stone
27
1
Concrete
28
1
Wood
29
1
Steel
29
1
Scale and Proportion
30
1
Context
30
1
Space
31
1
Climate
32
1
Model Analysis
33
1
Further Reading
34
1
In the Museum-Pictures and Sculptures
35
42
General Museum Decorum
35
1
In the Gallery--an Orientation
36
1
Two-Dimensional Art: Paintings, Prints, and Photography
37
26
Medium
38
8
Composition
46
12
Other Factors
58
5
Three-Dimensional Art: Sculpture
63
9
Dimensionality
63
2
Methods of Execution
65
3
Composition
68
3
Other Factors
71
1
Decorative Arts
72
1
Model Analysis
73
2
Pictures
73
1
Sculpture
74
1
Further Reading
75
2
In the Theatre
77
22
The Theatrical Experience
77
1
Genres
78
5
Tragedy
79
1
Comedy
79
1
Tragicomedy
80
1
Melodrama
81
1
Performance Art
82
1
The Production
83
12
The Script
84
1
Plot
84
3
Character
87
1
The Protagonist
87
1
Thought
87
1
Visual Elements
88
5
Aural Elements
93
1
Dynamics
93
1
The Actor
94
1
Theatre as Sense Stimulant
95
2
Model Analysis
97
1
Further Reading
98
1
At the Concert Hall-Music and Opera
99
26
The Basic Language of Music
100
17
Sound
100
3
Rhythm
103
1
Tempo
104
1
Melody
105
1
Harmony
106
2
Tonality
108
1
Texture
108
2
Musical Forms
110
7
The Performance
117
2
Opera
119
4
Types of Operas
120
1
The Libretto
120
1
Elements of Operas
121
2
Model Analysis
123
1
Further Reading
123
2
Dance
125
14
Genres
126
2
Ballet
126
1
Modern Dance
127
1
Folk Dance
127
1
The Aspects of Dance
128
8
Formalized Movement
128
2
Line, Form, and Repetition
130
1
Rhythm
131
1
Mime and Pantomime
131
1
Idea Content
132
1
Music
133
1
Mise-en-Scene
134
2
Model Analysis
136
1
Further Reading
137
2
At the Cinema-Film
139
8
Basic Film Types
141
1
Narrative Film
141
1
Documentary Film
141
1
Absolute Film
142
1
Basic Film Techniques
142
3
Editing
142
1
The Shot
143
1
Cutting
143
1
Dissolves
144
1
Focus
145
1
Camera Movement
145
1
Model Analysis
145
1
Further Reading
146
1
Style
147
32
What Is Style?
147
1
Timeline of Major Styles
148
1
Some Selected Major Styles in Visual Art, Architecture, Theatre, Music, Dance, and Film
149
30
Paleolithic
149
1
Mesopotamian
150
1
Egyptian
150
1
Archaic Style
150
1
Greek Classicism
151
1
Hellenistic Style
152
1
Roman Classicism
153
1
Byzantine
153
1
Gregorian Chant
153
1
Romanesque
154
1
Gothic
154
1
Renaissance
155
1
High Renaissance
156
1
Mannerism
156
1
Baroque
157
1
Rococo
158
1
Neoclassism (Classicism in Music)
159
2
Romanticism
161
1
Realism
162
1
Impressionism
163
1
Naturalism
163
1
Post-Impressionism
164
1
Art Nouveau
164
1
Symbolism
164
1
Verismo
165
1
Cubism
165
1
Futurism
165
1
Jazz
166
1
Prairie Style
166
1
Expressionism
166
1
Fauvism
167
1
Dada
167
1
Surrealism
168
1
Precisionism
168
1
Neo-Classicism (Music)
168
1
Abstraction
168
1
Twelve-Tone Music
169
1
Bauhaus
169
1
Art Deco
170
1
Modernism
170
1
Absurdism
171
1
Serialism
171
1
Neorealism
171
1
Epic Theatre
171
1
Abstract Expressionism
172
1
Aleatory (Chance Music)
172
1
International Style
172
1
Rock and Roll
173
1
Pop Art
173
1
Hard Edge
173
1
Minimalism
174
1
Op Art
174
1
Primary Structures
175
1
Video Art
175
1
Neo-Expressionism
175
1
Postmodernism
176
1
Neo-Abstraction
176
1
Musique Actuelle
177
1
Cyber Art
177
2
APPENDICES
179
22
A: 101 Must-See Works of Architecture
181
4
B: 201 Masterworks of Painting and Sculpture
185
8
C: 258 Major Architects, Artists, Choreographers, Composers, and Playwrights
193
8
Glossary
201
16
Index
217