Table of Contents

Preface/Front Matter


PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1 Living with Art
2 What Is Art?
3 Themes of Art


PART TWO: THE VOCABULARY OF ART
4 The Visual Elements
5 Principles of Design


PART THREE: TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA
6 Drawing
7 Painting
8 Prints
9 Camera and Computer Arts
10 Graphic Design


PART FOUR: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA
11 Sculpture and Installation
12 Arts of Ritual and Daily Life
13 Architecture


PART FIVE: ARTS IN TIME
14 Ancient Mediterranean Worlds
15 Christianity and the Formation of Europe
16 The Renaissance
17 The 17th and 18th Centuries
18 Arts of Islam and of Africa
19 Arts of Asia: India, China, and Japan
20 Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas
21 The Modern World: 1800-1945
22 From Modern to Postmodern
23 Contemporary Art around the World


Pronunciation Guide
Suggested Readings
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Mark Getlein arrived in New York to pursue advanced music studies at the Juilliard School, but he quickly became equally fascinated by the city's vibrant downtown art scene and magnificent museum collections. For a decade or so he led an interesting but precarious life as a pianist and painter. As a writer and development editor, he has helped to create a series of ground-breaking college textbooks in art and literature, including Art History (Abrams, 1995), A History of Art in Africa (Abrams, 2001), The HarperCollins World Reader, The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and The Longman Anthology of World Literature. This is his fourth edition as author of Living with Art.