The Making and Meaning of Art / Edition 1

by Laurie Schneider Adams, Laurence King Publishing, Ltd

Overview

Through interviews with contemporary artists, engaging discussion of the purposes of art and an accessible writing style, this book helps the readers connect the making and meaning of art in a way no other book does. Adams, The Making and Meaning of Art teaches that art is not just in museums and demystifies the creative process, so that readers can appreciate the relevance of art in their own lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131779198
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	09/28/2006
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

PART I: CREATING AND DEFINING WORKS OF ART

Chapter 1: What is Art?

Brancusi v. United States

Art Takes Many Forms: Variations on the Imagery of Birds and Flight

Controversy and Changing Views of Art

Michelangelo

Manet

Box: Look: Self-Portraits by Rembrandt and Picasso

Censorship and the Arts

1937: Hitler¹s Exhibition of ³Degenerate Art²

1989: Mapplethorpe Goes to Cincinnati

Looking at Art

Glossary

Chapter 2: The Creative Impulse

Gods as Artists/Artists as Gods

Creative Thinking and Visual Metaphor

Art Inspired by Nature and the Environment

Box: Look: Gerome's Pygmalion and Galatea

The Natural Landscape

The Urban Landscape

The Psychological Landscape: Dream and Myth

Glossary

PART II: PURPOSES OF ART

Chapter 3: Cultural Purpose of Art

Portraits and Self-Portraits

Commemoration and Documentation

Commemoration and Religion

Box: Look: Illuminating the Word of God

The Healing Power of Religious Imagery

Political Purposes of Art

Art as Political and Social Protest

The Art of Communication

Glossary

Chapter 4: Decorating Ourselves and Our Environment

Personal Decoration

Going to War

Decorating Our Personal Spaces

Decorating Walls and Floors

Household Objects

Furniture Design: Chairs and Thrones

Box: Look: Utility or Art

Decorating our Public Spaces

Decorating our Means of Travel

Glossary

PART III: THE ARTIST¹S VISUAL LANGUAGE

Chapter 5: The Visual Elements of Art

Line

Lines Used to Create Shape and Mass

Lines Used to Create Light and Dark

Implied Lines

Lines Used to Create Emotional Expression

Space

One-Point Perspective

Two-Point and Multiple-Point Perspective

Atmospheric Perspective

Isometric Perspective

Absence of Perspective in Ancient Egypt

Shape and Mass in Sculpture

Texture

Actual Texture in Sculpture

Implied and Actual Texture in Painting

Time

Time and Motion

Time and Space in Renaissance Painting

Light and Color

Expressive Qualities of Light and Color

Symbolic Meanings of Light and Color

Light as the Source of Color: The Visible Spectrum

The Color Wheel

Physical Properties of Color

Box: Look: Van Gogh¹s Starry Night

Optical Effects of Color

Glossary

Chapter 6: Terminology and the Principles of Design

Form

Representational Art

Nonrepresentational Art

Abstract Art

Stylized Art

Idealized Art

Subject Matter and Content

Design

Unity and Variation

Focus, Emphasis, and Subordination

Scale and Proportion

Balance

Rhythm and Pattern

Rhythm, Color, and Music

Box: Look: Munch, The Scream

Glossary

Chapter 7: The Methodologies of Art History

Formalism

A Formal Approach to Keisei Eisen¹s Oiran on Parade

Iconography and Iconology

The Iconography of Giotto¹s Adoration of the Magi

The Iconography of Andy Warhol¹s U.S. Dollar Sign

Marxism

A Marxist Reading of Daumier¹s First- and Third-Class Carriages

Feminism

Biography and Autobiography

Bernini¹s David as Autobiography: A Biographical Reading

Gauguin¹s Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ

Semiotics

Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction

Psychoanalysis

Box: Look: A Medley of Methods: Grant Wood¹s American Gothic

Glossary

PART IV: TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES OF ART

Chapter 8: Drawing

Functions of Drawing

Dry Media

Charcoal

Silverpoint

Box: Making: David Hockney on Drawing

Pencil

Chalk

Crayon

Liquid Media: Pen and Ink, Brush and Ink

Box: Look: Mixed Drawing Media

Glossary

Chapter 9: Painting and Related Techniques

Painting Media

Encaustic

Fresco

Tempera

Oil

Watercolour

Box: Look: De Kooning¹s Woman VI

Gouache

Acrylic

Box: Making: Elizabeth Murray on Painting

Techniques Related to Painting

Collage

Stained Glass

Mosaic

Glossary

Chapter 10: Printmaking

Relief Prints

Woodcut

Woodblock

Linocut

Intaglio

Engraving

Wood Engraving

Drypoint

Mezzotint

Aquatint

Etching

Lithography

Box: Look: Klimt¹s Music of 1901

Serigraphy

Monotype

Offset Printing

Graphic Design

Box: Making: Milton Glaser on Graphic Design

Glossary

Chapter 11: Still Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Imagery

Still Photography

Historical Development

Portraiture

Recording the City

Landscape

Photojournalism and Social Documentation

The Decisive Moment

Advertising and Fashion

Box: Making: Wolfgang Tillmans on Photography

New Approaches and Techniques

From Still Photography to Motion Pictures

Motion Pictures

Beginnings

D.W. Griffith

Charlie Chaplin

Sergei Eisenstein

The ŒTalkies¹ and Color

Ingmar Bergman

Alfred Hitchcock

Animation and Special Effects

Video

Box: Look: The Sleep of Reason‹Viola and Goya

Glossary

PART V: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES

Chapter 12: Craft

The Arts and Crafts Movement

Clay

Box: Making: Mary Roehm on Potting

Wood and Bamboo

Metal

Gold

Bronze

Iron

Fiber

Glass

Box: Look: Dale Chihuly

Glossary

Chapter 13: Sculpture

Relief

Freestanding Sculpture

Media and Techniques of Sculpture

Modelling

Casting

Carving

Mixed Media

Ready-mades

Assemblage

Box: Making: Claes Oldenburg on Sculpture

New Media

Sculpture and the Environment

Box: Look: The Vietnam Wall as Site and Text

Glossary

Chapter 14: Architecture

Load-bearing Architecture

Post-and-Lintel

Arches and Vaults

Corbel Arches

Round Arches, Barrel Vaults, and Groin (Cross)-Vaults

Pointed Arches and Rib Vaults

Domes

The Geodesic Dome

Truss and Balloon Frames

Cast-Iron Construction

Steel-Frame Construction and Reinforced Concrete

Cantilever Construction

Suspension

Box: Look: Gateway Arch, Saint Louis, Missouri

Computer-assisted Design

Box: Making: Santiago Calatrava on Architecture

Glossary

PART VI: ART IN HISTORY

Chapter 15: The Ancient World

Prehistory in Western Europe

The Ancient Near East

Ancient Egypt

Box: Consider: Reading the Palette of Narmer: An Excursion into Egyptian Iconography

The Aegean Civilizations

Box: Meaning: I.M. Pei on influences from the Ancient World

Glossary

Chapter 16: Ancient Greece, Etruria, and Rome

Ancient Greece

Archaic Period

Transition to the Classical Period

Classical Architecture: The Parthenon

Box: Consider: The Cultural Significance of the Parthenon Sculptures

The Hellenistic Style

The Etruscans

Ancient Rome

Box: Making: Grayson Perry on the influences of Ancient Rome

Glossary

Chapter 17: Early Christianity and the Medieval World

The Rise of Christianity

Early Christian Art

Byzantine Art

Box: Consider: Reading Christian Symbolism

The Rise of Islam

Islamic Art in Western Europe

Early Medieval Art in Western Europe

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Box: Meaning: TBA (contemporary artist discussing influences of the Medieval or Islamic World)

Glossary

Chapter 18: The Renaissance and Mannerism

Fourteenth-century Italian Painting

Italian Art in the Fifteenth Century

Box: Meaning: Graham Nickson on the influence of Piero della Francesca

Florence: The First Generation

Box: Consider: Masaccio¹s Trinity, a Renaissance Synthesis of Form and Meaning

The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy

Painting in Venice

Northern European Art in the Fifteenth Century

The High Renaissance in Italy: c. 14801520

The Sixteenth Century in the North

Mannerism

Glossary

Chapter 19: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Baroque Style in Italy

Spanish Baroque: Velazquez

Box: Consider: Las Meninas: Autobiography as Iconography

French Baroque

Baroque in Northern Europe

Box: Meaning: Tracey Chevalier on the inspiration of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

England: Saint Paul¹s Cathedral

The Rococo Style

The Neoclassical Style

The Federal Style

Glossary

Art Beyond the West

Chapter 20: The Art of India and Southeast Asia

Indus Valley Civilization

Hinduism and Buddhism

Emperor Ashoka: From Hinduism to Buddhism

Box: Consider: The Stupa as a Cosmic Symbol

Buddhist Sculpture in India

Buddhist Painting in India: The Ajanta Caves

Hindu Art in India

Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Cambodia

Mughal Art in India

Glossary

Chapter 21: The Arts of China and Japan

Art in China

Neolithic China

Bronze Age China

Daoism and Confucianism

Emperor Qin Shihuangdi

Box: Consider: Life Goes On, Emperor Qin Shihuangdi¹s Bodyguard

The Tang Dynasty

The Song Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty

Art in Japan

Kofun Period

The Buddhist Monastery in Japan

Heian Period

Kamakura Period

Momoyama Period

The Edo Period

Glossary

Chapter 22: Art in Africa

Northwest Africa

Nok Culture

Mali

Box: Consider: The Dogon Seated Couple

The Yoruba

Central-West Africa

Cameroon

South Africa

Box: Meaning: Sokari Douglas Kamp on the influence of African masks.

Glossary

Chapter 23: Art of the Pacific and the Americas

Arts of the Pacific

Australia

Melanesia

Polynesia

Hawaii

Marquesas Tattoing

Easter Island

New Zealand

Micronesia

Arts of the Americas

Paracas Culture

Moche Culture

Inka Civilization: Machu Picchu

Mesoamerica

The Olmec

Teotihuacan

The Maya

Box: Consider: The Maya Ball Game

The Aztecs

North America

Woodlands

Northwest Coast: The Kwakiutl

The Plains

Southwest: The Cliff Dwelling

Glossary

Chapter 24: The Nineteenth Century

Romanticism

Spain: Goya

France

Germany: Friedrich

England: Constable and Turner

Romantic Landscape in the United States

Realism

Photography as Medium and Subject

American Realist Painters: Homer and Tanner

Realism and Architecture

Impressionism

Box: Consider: Who¹s Looking at Whom? The Erotic Gaze

Sculpture: Rodin

Post-Impressionism

Box: Meaning: TBA (Contemporary artist on influence of 19th-century art)

Glossary

Chapter 25: 1900 to 1945

Expressionism and Cubism in France

Futurism in Italy: Boccioni

Expressionism and Suprematism in Russia and Germany

Box: Consider: Malevich¹s Black Square

World War I and the Dada Movement

Realism and Abstraction in the United States

The Harlem Renaissance

Trends in Europe after World War I

Tatlin¹s Constructivism

De Stijl in Holland: Rietveld and Mondrian

The Bauhaus in Germany

Opposing Trends in Architecture: Le Corbusier and Wright

Surrealism

Photography

Glossary

Chapter 26: 1945 to the Present

Abstract Expressionism

Color Field

Self-Taught: Horace Pippin and Grandma Moses

Pop Art

Minimalism

Feminist Art: Judy Chicago

Earth and Environmental Art: Smithson and the Christos

Box: Meaning: Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Box: Consider: The Pont Neuf Wrapped

Photography: Self as Subject

Photorealism and Super Realism: Estes and Hanson

Graffiti and the Urban Street

Performance, Video, and New Media

Architecture

Glossary