Table of Contents

I. THE VISUAL WORLD: UNDERSTANDING THE ART YOU SEE. 1. A World of Art. The World as Artists See It. Works in Progress: The Creative Process. The World as We Perceive It. The Critical Process: Thinking About Making and Seeing. 2. Developing Visual Literacy. Words and Images. Works in Progress: Lorna Simpsons The Park. Describing the World. The Critical Process: Thinking about Visual Literacy. 3. The Themes of Art. Representing the World. Representing Other Realities. Works in Progress: Pablo Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon. The Critical Process: Thinking about the Themes of Art. 4. Seeing the Value of Art. Art and Its Reception. Art, Politics, and Public Space. Works in Progress: Guillermo G?mez-Pe?as Temple of Confessions. The Critical Process: Thinking about the Value of Art. II. THE FORMAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR DESIGN: DESCRIBING THE ART YOU SEE. 5. Line. Varieties of Line. Qualities of Line. Works in Progress: Vincent van Goghs Sower. Works in Progress: Hung Lius Three Fujins. The Critical Process: Thinking about Line. Works in Progress: J.-A.-D. Ingress Turkish Bath. 6. Space. Shape and Mass. Three-Dimensional Space. Two-Dimensional Space. Linear Perspective. Works in Progress: Peter Paul Rubenss Kermis. Some Other Means of Representing Space. Distortions of Space and Foreshortening. Modern Experiments and New Directions. The Critical Process: Thinking about Space. 7. Light and Color. Light. Works in Progress: Mary Cassatts In the Loge. Color. Works in Progress: Chuck Closes Stanley. Works in Progress: Sonia Delaunays Electric Prism. The Critical Process: Thinking about Light and Color. 8. Other Formal Elements. Texture. Pattern. Time and Motion. Works in Progress: Jackson Pollocks Number 29. The Critical Process: Thinking about Other Formal Elements. 9. The Principles of Design. Balance. Emphasis and Focal Point. Works in Progress: Diego Vel?zquezs Las Meninas. Scale and Proportion. Works in Progress: Judith F. Bacas USC Mural. Repetition and Rhythm. Unity and Variety. The Critical Process: Thinking about the Principles of Design. III. THE FINE ARTS MEDIA: LEARNING HOW ART IS MADE. 10. Drawing. Drawing as an Art. Drawing Materials. Works in Progress: Raphaels Alba Madonna. Works in Progress: Beverly Buchanans Shackworks. The Critical Process: Thinking about Drawing. 11. Printmaking. Relief Processes. Works in Progress: Utamaros Studio. Intaglio Processes. Works in Progress: Albrecht D?rers Adam and Eve. Lithography. Works in Progress: June Waynes Knockout. Silkscreen Printing. Monotypes. The Critical Process: Thinking about Printmaking. 12. Painting. Encaustic. Fresco. Works in Progress: Michelangelos Libyan Sybil. Tempera. Oil Painting. Works in Progress: Milton Resnicks U + Me. Watercolor. Gouache. Synthetic Media. The Critical Process: Thinking about Painting. 13. Sculpture. Carving. Modeling. Casting. Assemblage. Works in Progress: Eva Hesses Contingent. Earthworks. The Critical Process: Thinking about Sculpture. 14. Other Three-Dimensional Media. Craft Media. Works in Progress: Pater Voulkoss X-Neck. Mixed Media. Works in Progress: Hannah H?chs Cut with the Kitchen Knife. Works in Progress: Goat Islands How Dear to Me the Hour When Daylight Dies. The Critical Process: Thinking about Other Three-Dimensional Media. 15. The Camera Arts. Photography. Works in Progress: Jerry Uelsmanns Untitled. Film. Video. Works in Progress: Bill Violas Greeting. The Critical Process: Thinking about the Camera Arts. THE VISUAL ARTS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: RECOGNIZING THE ART OF DESIGN. 16. Architecture. Topography. Technology. Works in Progress: Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater. Community Life. Works in Progress: Mierle Ukeless Fresh Kills Landfill Project. The Critical Process: Thinking about Architecture. 17. Design. Design, Craft, and Fine Art. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Art Nouveau. Art Deco. The Avant-Gardes. The Bauhaus. Streamlining. The Forties and Fifties. Contemporary Design. Works in Progress: Fred Wilsons Mining the Museum. The Critical Process: Thinking about Design. THE VISUAL RECORD: PLACING THE ARTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT. 18. The Ancient World. The Earliest Art. Sumerian Culture. Egyptian Civilization. Works in Progress: Drawing in Ancient Egypt. Aegean Civilizations. Greek Art. Roman Art. Developments in Asia. 19. The Christian Era. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Christian Art in Northern Europe. Romanesque Art. Gothic Art. Developments in Islam and Asia. 20. The Renaissance Through the Baroque. The Early Renaissance. The High Renaissance. Art in China. Pre-Columbian Art in Mexico. Mannerism. The Baroque. 21. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Rococo. Neoclassicism. Romanticism. Works in Progress: Th?odore G?ricaults Raft of the Medusa. Realism. Impressionism. Post-Impressionism. 22. The Twentieth Century. Cubism. The Fauves. German Expressionism. Futurism. Dada and Surrealism. Works in Progress: Pablo Picassos Guernica. American Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Pop Art and Minimalism. Postmodern Directions. Works in Progress: Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The Critical Process: Thinking about the History of Art.