Living with Art's approach to art appreciation supports students' acquisition of the essential skills of the course. Mark Getlein's vivid narrative, in concert with McGraw-Hill's powerful adaptive learning program LearnSmart within CONNECT Art, helps students understand, analyze, and appreciate the ways art work communicates to us in our visual world. In doing so, Living with Art provides the foundation for a life-long appreciation of art, as well as critical thinking skills that will benefit students far beyond the classroom into their chosen careers.
Students are invited to actively join in the discussion from Chapter 1. The narrative engages them in the stories of art, while the integrated digital assessments in CONNECT Art challenge them to build a fluency in the core vocabulary of the course; practice applying it in guided writing assignments; and ultimately prepare for active class participation and success on critical analysis, studio, and museum assignments. The result is greater engagement and greater course success.
Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction
1 Living with Art
The Impulse for Art
What Do Artists Do?
Creating and Creativity
Looking and Responding
ARTISTS: Maya Lin
ARTISTS: Vincent Van Gogh
2 What Is Art?
Artist and Audience
Art and Beauty
Art and Appearances
Art and Meaning
Art and Objects
THINKING ABOUT ART: Insiders and Outsiders
ARTISTS: Louise Bourgeois
THINKING ABOUT ART: Aesthetics
3 Themes of Art
The Sacred Realm
Politics and the Social Order
Stories and Histories
Looking Outward: The Here and Now
Looking Inward: The Human Experience
Invention and Fantasy
The Natural World
Art and Art
THINKING ABOUT ART: Iconoclasm
ARTISTS: Robert Rauschenberg
ARTISTS: Katsushika Hokusai
Part Two: The Vocabulary of Art
4 The Visual Elements
Line
Shape and Mass
Light
Color
Texture and Pattern
Space
Time and Motion
CROSSING CULTURES: Japanese Prints
THINKING ABOUT ART: Conservation
5 Principles of Design
Unity and Variety
Balance
Emphasis and Subordination
Scale and Proportion
Rhythm
Elements and Principles: A Summary
ARTISTS: Georgia O'Keeffe
THINKING ABOUT ART: Points of View
Part Three: Two-Dimensional Media
6 Drawing
Materials for Drawing
Drawing and Beyond: Paper as a Medium
ARTISTS: Leonardo
CROSSING CULTURES: Paper
7 Painting
Encaustic
Fresco
Tempera
Oil
Watercolor, Gouache, and Similar Media
Acrylic
Painting and Beyond: Off the Wall!
Sumptuous Images: Mosaic and Tapestry
ARTISTS: Jacob Lawrence
8 Prints
Relief
Intaglio
Lithography
Screenprinting
Monotype
Inkjet
Recent Directions: Printing on the World
ARTISTS: Albrecht Durer
ARTISTS: Kathe Kollwitz
9 Camera and Computer Arts
Photography
Film
Video
The Internet
THINKING ABOUT ART: Censorship
10 Graphic Design
Signs and Symbols
Typography and Layout
Word and Image
Motion and Interactivity
Graphic Design and Art
Part Four: Three-Dimensional Media
11 Sculpture and Installation
Methods and Materials of Sculpture
The Human Figure in Sculpture
Working with Time and Place
CROSSING CULTURES: Primitivism
ARTISTS: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
12 Arts of Ritual and Daily Life
Clay
Glass
Metal
Wood
Fiber
Ivory, Jade, and Lacquer
Art, Craft, Design
ARTISTS: Maria Martinez
ARTISTS: Olowe of Ise
CROSSING CULTURES: Export Arts
13 Architecture
Structural Systems in Architecture
New Technologies, New Materials, Current Concerns
Imagining Architecture
ARTISTS: Zaha Hadid
ARTISTS: Frank Lloyd Wright
Part Five: Arts in Time
14 Ancient Mediterranean Worlds
The Oldest Art
Mesopotamia
Egypt
The Aegean
The Classical World: Greece and Rome
THINKING ABOUT ART: Whose Grave?
THINKING ABOUT ART: The Marbles and the Museums
15 Christianity and the Formation of Europe
The Rise of Christianity
Byzantium
The Middle Ages in Europe
Toward the Renaissance
16 The Renaissance
The Early and High Renaissance in Italy
The Renaissance in the North
The Late Renaissance in Italy
ARTISTS: Michelangelo
17 The 17th and 18th Centuries
The Baroque Era
The 18th Century
Revolution
ARTISTS: Artemisia Gentileschi
ARTISTS: Rembrandt
THINKING ABOUT ARTISTS: Academies
ARTISTS: Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun
18 Arts of Islam and of Africa
Arts of Islam
Arts of Africa
CROSSING CULTURES: Africa Looks Back
19 Arts of Asia: India, China, and Japan
Arts of India
Arts of China
Arts of Japan
CROSSING CULTURES: The Early Buddha Image
20 Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas
Pacific Cultures
The Americas
21 The Modern World: 1800-1945
Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Realism
Manet and Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Bridging the Atlantic: American in the 19th Century