The Arts: A Comparative Approach to the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Drama

by Thomas A. Walters

Overview

Thomas Walters is an accomplished professional art educator and interdisciplinary humanities professor. His education includes a B.S. degree in Art Education from Atlantic Union College, where he concentrated in drawing, ceramics and art history. He also holds an M.A.T. degree in Art Education from Andrews University with a concentration in Art History. He has completed all the coursework toward a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in the arts at Ohio University.His accomplishments include teaching art education, ceramics drawing, music appreciation, art appreciation, art history and interdisciplinary humanities. He has taught at Montemorelos University, Indiana University and IADT: International Academy of Design and Technology. He has exhibited his art works including wood sculpture, painting, drawing and ceramics in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462873838
Publisher:	Xlibris Corporation
Publication date:	06/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	290 KB

About the Author

Thomas A. Walters teaches art history, art education, and art appreciation at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

chapter 1 Introduction chapter 2 Balance and Measure: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Architecture, Sculpture and Drama chapter 3 Amiens Cathedral: The Summa of French High Gothic Architecture chapter 4 The Italian Renaissance chapter 5 The Rebirth of the Visual Language of Ordering Space chapter 6 Dynamics: Baroque Movement and Order chapter 7 Ingres and Delacroix: Nineteenth Century "Classical" Artists? chapter 8 Organic Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright chapter 9 Modern Reductionism: Broadway Boogie Woogie and Hyperprism.