Irina D. Costache

The Art of Understanding Art (eBook, PDF)

A Behind the Scenes Story

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and otherreaders new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas andopinions about art and how to express them with confidence. * Offers an inquiry--unique among introductory arttexts--into the learning process of understanding andappreciating art * Examines the multiple issues and processes essential to making,analyzing and evaluating art * Uses cross-cultural examples to help readers developcomprehensive, yet personal, ways of looking at and thinking aboutart * Includes an annotated glossary of the 'Art World', institutionsand individuals that play a role in defining art as well asdiagrams, textboxes callouts and other visual elements to highlightinformation and enhance learning * Richly illustrated with over 40 images * Suggests innovative class assignments and projects useful fordeveloping lesson plans, and offers an online companion site foradditional illustrations and information

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 03.05.2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118132388
• Artikelnr.: 37342837

Autorenporträt

Irina D. Costache, Ph.D., is an art historian and Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands. Her innovative teaching methodologies have been recognized with awards and grants. She has curated several exhibitions, including Postmodern Calligraphies, Nature and/or Technology and Line and Color. Her presentations and publications include This is Not a Painting: Art History and the Internet, Visual Culture/ Virtual Art, Italian Futurism and the Decorative Arts, and Futurist Film: an Incomplete Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements "Read Me First" Why Is Art Made? The Purposes of Art Anatomy of a Work of Art Part I: Making Art 1. Artists and Patrons 2. Environment
Materials
and Context 3. Context Part II: Disseminating Art 4. The Disseminating of Original Art 5. Disseminating Art Through Reproduction and Other Issues Part III: Analyzing Art 6. Visual Resources Used to Analyze Art 7. Textual and Other Resources Used To Analyze Art 8. A Critical Examination of Art Classification Part IV: Interpreting Art 9. Interpreting Art: Criteria and Values 10. Methodologies of Art Conclusion References (Notes
Suggested Readings
Films and Websites) List of Illustrations Appendices /Additional Material: * "The Art World" * Creative Assignments and Writing Projects * Information (Glossary of artists
art movements
and terms) * Tools of the Trade Diagrams (1-8): Form and Content(1-5)and Art Media(6-8)