Fanchon Silberstein

Art inSight (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Art and Why It Matters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas, people, places and parts of yourself. In Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters, Fanchon Silberstein delves into the first known art and explores what it can reveal about how its makers saw the world and how contemporary artists can help us to see our own. The result is equal parts an ode to the joy of artful engagement, a how-to for anyone interested in understanding art and culture and a journey around the world from prehistory to the present day. Readers confront strangeness through observation, description and conversation, and are given the skills to understand cross-cultural divisions and perceive diverse ways of interpreting the world.

Organized by ideas rather than history, chronology or cultures, the book presents dialogues, imagining interactions between paintings created centuries apart and describing discussions among students learning the role of art in conflict resolution. By emphasizing the relationship between viewer and image, Art inSight urges readers to discover meaning in their own ways and offers questions that lead them into profound connections with works of art and the cultures behind them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789381184
• Artikelnr.: 58599993

Autorenporträt

Fanchon Silberstein is a writer, teacher and trainer who presented art and culture workshops around the world. She was the director of the U. S. State Department's Overseas Briefing Center and was on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland. At the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum, where she served as a docent for over thirty years, she taught observation skills to students of conflict resolution.