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A market leading text for the art appreciation course, UNDERSTANDING ART combines its strong coverage of art history, with comprehensive coverage and presentation of the visual elements, principles of design, and media to provide a well-balanced discussion of the relevance and beauty of art and the media and methods used to produce art.

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Preface

PART I. Introduction

What Is Art?

(24)

Art Creates Beauty

(1)

Art Enhances Our Environment

(1)

A Closer Look A Portrait in the Flesh

(2)

Art Reveals Truth

(1)

Art Immortalizes

(1)

Art Expresses Religious Beliefs

(2)

Art Expresses Fantasy

(1)

Art Stimulates the Intellect and Fires the Emotions

(1)

Art Creates Order and Harmony

(1)

Compare + Contrast The Piano Lesson(s) by Matisse and Bearden

(1)

Art Expresses Chaos

(1)

Art Records and Commemorates Experience

(3)

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

(2)

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

(2)

Art Elevates the Commonplace

(1)

Art Meets the Needs of the Artist

(3)

PART II. The Language of Art

Visual Elements of Art

(46)

Line

(9)

Characteristics of Line

(5)

Functions of Line

(4)

Shape, Volume, and Mass

(5)

Mass

(1)

Types of Shape

(2)

Compare + Contrast Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon with Colescott's Les Demoiselles d'Alabama: Vestidas

(6)

Light and Value

(4)

Chiaroscuro

(1)

Descriptive and Expressive Properties of Value

(1)

Color

(4)

Psychological Dimensions of Color: Hue, Value, and Saturation

(1)

Complementary versus Analogous Colors

(2)

Local versus Optical Color

(1)

Texture

(4)

Types of Texture

(3)

Space

(6)

Overlapping

(1)

Relative Size and Linear Perspective

(4)

Atmospheric Perspective

(1)

Time and Motion

(7)

Actual Motion

(1)

Implied Motion and Time

(1)

The Illusion of Motion

(5)

Principles of Design

(28)

Unity and Variety

(2)

Balance

(8)

Actual Balance and Pictorial Balance

(1)

Symmetrical Balance

(1)

Asymmetrical Balance

(2)

Horizontal, Vertical, and Radial Balance

(2)

Imbalance

(1)

Emphasis and Focal Point

(4)

Rhythm

(2)

Scale

(3)

Hierarchical Scaling

(1)

Distortion of Scale

(1)

A Closer Look Claes Oldenburg: On Clothespins, Baseball Bats, and Other Monuments

(2)

Proportion

(6)

The Canon of Proportions: ``Keeping Things in Proportion''

(1)

The Golden Mean

(3)

The Spiral

(3)

Style, Form, and Content

(14)

Style

100

(5)

Art, Culture, and Context

100

(4)

Realistic Art

104

(1)

Expressionistic Art

104

(1)

Abstract Art

104

(1)

Compare + Contrast Wood's American Gothic with Rosenthal's He Said. She Said

105

(2)

Form

107

(1)

Content

107

(1)

The Levels of Content

107

(1)

Compare + Contrast David's The Oath of the Horatii with Kruger's Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero)

108

(5)

Iconography

110

(3)

PART III. Two-Dimensional Media

Drawing

113

(18)

Categories of Drawing

114

(1)

Drawing Materials

115

(6)

Dry Media

115

(6)

A Closer Look Life, Death, and Dwelling in the Deep South

121

(2)

Fluid Media

122

(1)

A Closer Look Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World

123

(3)

Cartoons

126

(2)

New Approaches to Drawing

128

(3)

Painting

131

(14)

Paint

132

(1)

Types of Painting

132

(5)

Fresco

132

(1)

Encaustic

133

(1)

Tempera

134

(1)

Oil

134

(3)

Compare + Contrast The George Washingtons of Stuart and Lichtenstein

137

(2)

Acrylic

138

(1)

A Closer Look Superheroes: East Meets West

139

(3)

Watercolor

140

(1)

Spray Paint

141

(1)

Mixed Media

142

(3)

Printmaking

145

(14)

Methods of Printmaking

146

(1)

Relief

146

(1)

Woodcut

146

(1)

Wood Engraving

146

(1)

Compare + Contrast Hiroshige's Rain Shower on Ohashi Bridge with Xiaomo's Family by the Lotus Pond

147

(1)

Intaglio

148

(4)

Engraving

149

(1)

Drypoint

149

(1)

Etching

150

(2)

A Closer Look Hung Liu: Chinese Traditions Unbound

152

(2)

Mezzotint and Aquatint

153

(1)

Other Etching Techniques

154

(1)

Lithography

154

(1)

Serigraphy

155

(1)

Monotype

156

(3)

Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts

159

(32)

Photography

160

(9)

Cameras

162

(1)

Film

162

(1)

Digital Photography

163

(1)

History of Photography

163

(6)

Compare + Contrast The Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima with the Raising of the Flag at the World Trade Center

169

(5)

Cinematography

174

(8)

Varieties of Cinematographic Techniques

174

(5)

Varieties of Cinematographic Experience

179

(3)

Video

182

(4)

Digital Art

186

(5)

PART IV. Three-Dimensional Media Sculpture

191

(78)

Sculpture

192

(23)

Subtractive and Additive Types of Sculpture

192

(4)

Carving

192

(1)

Modeling

193

(1)

Casting

193

(3)

Construction

196

(1)

Types of Materials

196

(2)

Stone

196

(1)

Wood

197

(1)

A Closer Look The Vietnam Veterans Memorial- A Woman's Perspective

198

(2)

Clay

200

(1)

Metal

200

(1)

Modern and Contemporary Materials and Methods

200

(8)

Constructed Sculpture

200

(1)

Assemblage

201

(1)

Readymades

202

(1)

Mixed Media

203

(1)

Kinetic Sculpture

204

(1)

Light Sculpture

205

(1)

Land Art

205

(2)

A Portfolio of More Recent Sculpture

207

(1)

A Closer Look Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005

208

(4)

Arttour New York

212

(3)

Architecture

215

(24)

Stone Architecture

216

(5)

Post-and-Lintel Construction

217

(2)

Arches

219

(1)

Vaults

220

(1)

Domes

220

(1)

Wood Architecture

221

(3)

Post-and-Beam Construction

222

(1)

Trusses

222

(1)

Balloon Framing

222

(2)

Cast-Iron Architecture

224

(1)

Steel-Cage Architecture

225

(3)

Reinforced Concrete Architecture

228

(2)

Steel-Cable Architecture

230

(2)

A Closer Look In Lights at Ground Zero, Steps toward Illumination

232

(1)

Shell Architecture

233

(1)

New Materials, New Visions

234

(2)

Arttour Chicago

236

(3)

Craft and Design

239

(30)

Ceramics

240

(6)

Methods of Working with Clay

240

(1)

The Potter's Wheel

241

(1)

Glazing

242

(2)

Types of Ceramics

244

(2)

Glass

246

(3)

Techniques of Working Glass

246

(3)

Fiber Arts

249

(1)

Weaving

249

(1)

A Closer Look The Chandeliers of Dale Chihuly

250

(3)

Basketry

253

(1)

Metalwork and Jewelry

253

(1)

A Closer Look The Fiber Arts of Faith Ringgold

254

(3)

Wood

257

(1)

Design

258

(8)

Graphic Design

258

(1)

Posters

258

(1)

Logos

259

(2)

Industrial Design

261

(1)

Web Design

261

(3)

Urban Design

264

(2)

Arttour Washington, D.C.

266

(3)

PART V. Art Through The Ages The Art of The Ancients

269

(164)

The Art of the Ancients

269

(28)

Prehistoric Art

270

(1)

Map 12-1 Prehistoric Europe

270

(4)

Upper Paleolithic Art

270

(2)

Mesolithic Art

272

(1)

Neolithic Art

273

(1)

Art of the Ancient Near East

274

(1)

Sumer

274

(1)

Map 12-2 The Ancient Near East

274

(5)

Akkad

276

(1)

Babylonia

277

(1)

Assyria

278

(1)

Persia

278

(1)

Egyptian Art

279

(6)

Old Kingdom

279

(4)

Middle Kingdom

283

(1)

New Kingdom

283

(1)

The Amarna Revolution: The Reign of Akhenaton and Nefertiti

284

(1)

A Closer Look King Tut: The Face That Launched a Thousand High-Res Images

285

(3)

Aegean Art

288

(1)

Map 12-3 Greece (Fifth Century Bce)

288

(6)

The Cyclades

288

(1)

Crete

289

(2)

Mycenae

291

(3)

Arttour Jerusalem

294

(3)

Classical Art: Greece and Rome

297

(32)

Greece

298

(2)

Geometric Period

298

(1)

Archaic Period

299

(1)

A Closer Look The Women Weavers of Ancient Greece

300

(14)

Early Classical Art

305

(1)

Classical Art

306

(4)

Late Classical Art

310

(2)

Hellenistic Art

312

(2)

The Etruscans

314

(1)

Architecture

314

(1)

Sculpture

314

(1)

Rome

315

(1)

The Republican Period

315

(1)

Map 13-1 The Roman Empire (Second Century Ce)

315

(5)

The Early Empire

318

(2)

Compare + Contrast Stadium Designs: Thumbs-Up or Thumbs-Down?

320

(6)

The Late Empire

324

(2)

ARTTOUR Rome

326

(3)

Christian Art: From Catacombs to Cathedrals

329

(22)

Early Christian Art

330

(1)

The Period of Persecution

330

(1)

The Period of Recognition

331

(1)

Byzantine Art

331

(3)

San Vitale, Ravenna

332

(1)

Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

332

(2)

Later Byzantine Art

334

(1)

Early Medieval Art

334

(2)

MAP 14-1 Europe (c. 800 CE)

336

(2)

Carolingian Art

336

(1)

Ottonian Art

337

(1)

Romanesque Art

338

(6)

Architecture

339

(3)

Sculpture

342

(1)

Manuscript Illumination

343

(1)

Tapestry

343

(1)

A CLOSER LOOK Hildegard of Bingen

344

(1)

Gothic Art

345

(6)

Architecture

345

(3)

Sculpture

348

(3)

The Renaissance

351

(32)

The Renaissance

352

(1)

MAP 15-1 Renaissance Europe (c. Sixteenth Century)

352

(1)

Fifteenth-Century Northern Painting

352

(5)

Flemish Painting: From Page to Panel

352

(4)

German Art

356

(1)

The Renaissance in Italy

357

(15)

The Early Renaissance

357

(1)

Cimabue and Giotto

357

(2)

The Renaissance Begins, and So Does the Competition

359

(4)

Renaissance Art at Midcentury and Beyond

363

(2)

The High Renaissance

365

(6)

High and Late Renaissance in Venice

371

(1)

COMPARE + CONTRAST The ``Davids'' of Donatello, Verrocchio, Michelangelo, and Bernini

372

(8)

High and Late Renaissance outside Italy

377

(1)

Mannerism

378

(2)

ARTTOUR Dallas/Fort Worth

380

(3)

The Age of Baroque

383

(24)

MAP 16-1 Europe (Mid-Eighteenth Century)

384

(1)

The Baroque Period in Italy

384

(2)

A CLOSER LOOK Art Meets History: The Funeral of a Pope

386

(6)

COMPARE + CONTRAST Susannah and the Elders by Tintoretto and Gentileschi

392

(2)

The Baroque Period outside Italy

394

(8)

Spain

394

(2)

Flanders

396

(1)

Holland

397

(3)

France

400

(2)

The Rococo

402

(2)

ARTTOUR London

404

(3)

Art Beyond the West

407

(26)

MAP 17-1 Art beyond the Western Tradition

408

(1)

African Art

408

(3)

COMPARE + CONTRAST Picasso's Nude with Drapery with an Etoumba Mask

411

(2)

Oceanic Art

413

(2)

Polynesia

414

(1)

Melanesia

414

(1)

Native Art of the Americas

415

(3)

Native Arts of Mexico

415

(3)

A CLOSER LOOK Cambios: The Clash of Cultures and the Artistic Fallout

418

(3)

Native Arts of Peru

419

(1)

Native Arts of the United States and Canada

419

(2)

Islamic Art

421

(1)

Indian Art

422

(4)

Chinese Art

426

(2)

Japanese Art

428

(5)

PART VI. Art in Modern and Postmodern Times Modern Art

433

(107)

Neoclassicism

434

(35)

Romanticism

436

(2)

COMPARE + CONTRAST Ingres's Grande Odalisque, Delacroix's Odalisque, Cezanne's A Modern Olympia, and Sleigh's Philip Golub Reclining

438

(4)

The Academy

440

(2)

Realism

442

(4)

COMPARE + CONTRAST Titian's Venus of Urbino, Manet's Olympia, Gauguin's Te Arii Vahine, Valadon's The Blue Room, and Eidos Interactive's Lara Croft

446

(2)

Impressionism

448

(4)

Postimpressionism

452

(4)

A CLOSER LOOK Why Did van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?

456

(2)

Expressionism

458

(2)

American Expatriates

460

(1)

Americans in America

461

(2)

A CLOSER LOOK Weaving Together Biblical and Personal Stories

463

(1)

Art Nouveau

464

(1)

The Birth of Modern Sculpture

465

(1)

ARTTOUR Paris

466

(3)

The Twentieth Century: The Early Years

469

(26)

The Fauves

470

(2)

Expressionism

472

(2)

Die Brucke (The Bridge)

472

(1)

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

473

(1)

The New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)

474

(1)

Cubism

474

(6)

Analytic Cubism

476

(2)

Synthetic Cubism

478

(1)

Cubist Sculpture

478

(2)

Futurism

480

(2)

Early Twentieth-Century Abstraction in the United States

482

(2)

Early Twentieth-Century Abstraction in Europe

484

(2)

Constructivism

484

(2)

Fantasy and Dada

486

(2)

COMPARE + CONTRAST Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Duchamp's Mona Lisa (L.H. O. O. Q), Odutokun's Dialogue with Mona Lisa, and Lee's Bona Lisa

488

(3)

Dada

490

(1)

Surrealism

491

(4)

Contemporary Art

495

(45)

Contemporary Art

496

(1)

Painting

496

(1)

The New York School: The First Generation

496

(8)

Turning the Corner toward an Abstract Expressionism

496

(2)

Focus on Gesture

498

(3)

Focus on the Color Field

501

(1)

Combined Gesture and Color-Field Painting

502

(2)

The New York School: The Second Generation

504

(1)

Color-Field Painting

504

(1)

Minimal Art

504

(1)

Figurative Painting

505

(2)

Pop Art

507

(2)

Photorealism

509

(2)

Op Art (Optical Painting)

511

(1)

New Image Painting

511

(2)

Pattern Painting

513

(1)

The Shaped Canvas

513

(1)

Neo-Expressionism

514

(2)

Sculpture

516

(6)

Sculpture at Mid-Twentieth Century

516

(1)

Contemporary Figurative Sculpture

517

(2)

Contemporary Abstract Sculpture

519

(3)

COMPARE + CONTRAST Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Kollwitz's Outbreak, Catlett's Harriet, and Goya's And They Are Like Wild Beasts

522

(2)

Feminist Art

524

(3)

Deconstructivist Architecture

527

(1)

A Closer look Guerrilla Girl Warfare

528

(3)

A Portfolio of Art in the New Millennium

531

(3)

A CLOSER LOOK Jacques-Louis David on a Brooklyn Tennis Court

534

(6)

Glossary

540

(10)

Index

550

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