'Prebles' Artforms' continues to lead the field with its focus on contemporary art, global artists, and technology for the art appreciation classroom. Besides the expected discussion of the various forms of art, the title also reflects the fact that art does indeed help to form us as people.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE
Part 1: The Language of Visual Experience
1 THE NATURE OF ART AND CREATIVITY
What Is Art?
Purposes and Functions of Art Biography: Jazz, Memory, and Metaphor: Romare Bearden Creativity Art in the World:
Early Encounters with the Artist Within Untrained Artists
2 VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Looking and Seeing The Visual Toolbox Line Shape Mass Space Time and Motion Light Color Art and Reality Seeing
and Responding to Form Biography: A Personal Vision: Georgia O�Keeffe Iconography
3 HOW AN ART WORK IS BUILT
Unity and Variety Balance Emphasis and Subordination Directional Forces Contrast Repetition and Rhythm Scale and
Proportion Design Summary Biography: Expression Is Foremost: Henri Matisse
Part 2: The Media of Art
4 DRAWING
Biography: A Life's Work in Ten Years: Vincent van Gogh 106
Purposes of Drawing Tools and Techniques Graphic Novels / Comics Contemporary Approaches
5 PAINTING
Ingredients and Surfaces Watercolor Tempera and Encaustic Oil Acrylic Fresco Art in the World: The Great Wall of
Los Angeles
6 PRINTMAKING
Relief Intaglio Lithography Stencil Current Directions
7 PHOTOGRAPHY
A Tool and an Art Form Biography: "A Photographer at My Very Core:" Margaret Bourke-White Pushing the
Limits The Digital Revolution
8 MOVING IMAGES: FILM AND DIGITAL ARTS
Film: The Moving Image Television and Video Digital Art Forms
9 GRAPHIC DESIGN
Design Disciplines Graphic Design Biography: Design Between the Eyes: Chaz Maviyane-Davies Interactive Design Motion
Graphics Product Design
10 SCULPTURE
Freestanding and Relief Sculpture Methods and Materials Kinetic Sculpture Mixed Media Installations and Site-Specific
Art
11 FLIRTING WITH FUNCTION
Clay At the Edge of Art: Boolean Valley Glass Metal Wood Fiber Biography: Stitched into History: Faith Ringgold
12 ARCHITECTURE
An Art and a Science Styles, Materials, and Methods Biography: Deconstructing a Building: Zaha Hadid Designing
with Nature Biography: Radical Innovator: Frank Lloyd Wright
13 EVALUATING ART
Evaluation Art Criticism What Makes it Great?
Art in the World: What to Do in a Museum
Part 3: Art as Cultural Heritage
14 FROM THE EARLIEST ART TO THE BRONZE AGE
The Paleolithic Period At the Edge of Art: Stones from Blombos The Neolithic Period The Beginnings of Civilization
Mesopotamia Egypt
15 THE CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL WEST
Greece Art in the World: The Battle of the Parthenon Rome Early Christian and Byzantine Art The Middle Ages in
Europe
16 RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE EUROPE
The Renaissance Biography: Temperamental Genius: Michelangelo Buonarroti Baroque Art in the World: Engendering
It
17 TRADITIONAL ARTS OF ASIA
India Southeast Asia China Japan
18 THE ISLAMIC WORLD
Arab Lands Spain Persia India: The Mughal Empire
19 AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS
Africa Oceania and Australia At the Edge of Art: New Ireland Mask Native North America Biography: Warrior, Captive,
and Artist: Howling Wolf Pre-Columbian Central and South America
Part 4: The Modern World
20 LATE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Neoclassicism Romanticism Photography Realism Biography: Flouting Social Conventions: Rosa Bonheur Impressionism
Biography: Guided by Light: Claude Monet The Post-Impressionist Period Biography: Struggling Idealist: Paul Gauguin
21 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Fauves and Expressionism Cubism Biography: Restless Creativity: Pablo Picasso Toward Abstract Sculpture The
Modern Spirit in America Futurism and the Celebration of Motion
22 BETWEEN WORLD WARS
Dada Surrealism Expanding on Cubism Building a New Society Political Protest Latin American Modernism American
Regionalism Biography: Compelling Autobiographer: Frida Kahlo African-American Modernists Organic Abstraction
23 POSTWAR MODERN MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST
The New York School Photography and Architecture at Mid-Century Assemblage Events and Happenings At the Edge of
Art: Sensorial Masks Pop Art Biography: The Pope of Pop: Andy Warhol Minimal Art Conceptual Art Site Works and
Earthworks Installations and Environments Early Feminism Performance Art in the World: Censoring It
24 MODERN ART BEYOND THE WEST
Japan At the Edge of Art: Passing Through China India Islamic Lands Africa
Part 5: The Postmodern World
25 POSTMODERNITY AND GLOBAL ART
Postmodern Architecture Painting Photography Sculpture Public Art Issue-Oriented Art Street Art At the Edge of
Art The Global Present
