Description

Gateways to Art, 3E

• • Title Page
  • Copyright Information
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Organization and How to Use this Book
  • New in this Edition
  • Resources for Instructors
  • Resources for Students
  • The Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • How to Use Gateway to Art and Other Features

Introduction

• • What Is Art?
  • Fine Art, Craft, and the Commercial Arts
  • The Visual World
  • Where Is Art?
  • Art and Creativity
  • Who Makes Art?
  • The Power and Value of Art
  • Protest and Censorship of Art
  • Studying Art
  • FEATURES
  • Gertrude Stein as an Art Patron
  • Loongkoonan: The Value of Art to Keep Alive Knowledge and Culture
  • Tracy Chevalier: Art Inspires a Novel and a Movie

Part 1. Fundamentals

• • Chapter 1.1 Line, Shape, and the Principle of Contrast
  • Line
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Kahlo, The Two Fridas: Using Line to Guide and Direct a Viewer’s Attention
  • Gateway to Art: Weems, Kitchen Table Series: The Principle of Contrast and Dramatic Effect
  • Chapter 1.2 Form, Volume, Mass, and Texture
  • Form
  • Form in Relief and in the Round
  • Volume
  • Mass
  • FEATURES
  • The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
  • Brancusi and Rodin: Using Mass to Describe Love
  • Texture
  • Chapter 1.3 Implied Depth: Value and Space
  • Value
  • Space
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Raphael, The School of Athens: Perspective and the Illusion of Depth
  • Chapter 1.4 Color
  • Color and Light
  • Color and Pigment
  • Additive and Subtractive Color
  • Color Wheels
  • Key Characteristics of Color
  • The Sensation of Color
  • Interpreting Color Symbolism
  • The Psychology of Color
  • Chapter 1.5 Motion and Time
  • Motion
  • Time
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn: Motion and Reproduction as a Metaphor for Tim
  • Chapter 1.6 Unity, Variety, and Balance
  • Unity
  • Variety
  • Balance
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa”: A Masterpiece of Unity and Harm
  • Gateway to Art: The Taj Mahal: Love and Perfection
  • Chapter 1.7 Scale and Proportion
  • Scale
  • Proportion
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Raphael, The School of Athens: Scale and Proportion in a Renaissance Masterpiece
  • Chapter 1.8 Focal Point and Emphasis
  • Focal Point
  • Emphasis
  • Subordination
  • Focal Point and Emphasis in Action
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes: Using Focal Point for Dramatic Emphasis
  • Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
  • Pattern
  • Rhythm
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Maya Lintel Showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc: Pattern Used to Emphasize Royal Powe
  • Chapter 1.10 Engaging with Form and Content
  • Formal Analysis
  • Stylistic Analysis
  • Iconographic Analysis
  • Contextual Analysis
  • Analysis, Critique, and Interpretation
  • Combined Analysis in Historical and Contemporary Art
  • FEATURES
  • Types of Analysis and Critique
  • Research and Interpretation

Part 2. Media And Processes

• • Chapter 2.1 Drawing
  • Functions of Drawing
  • The Materials of Drawing: Dry Media
  • The Materials of Drawing: Wet Media
  • Paper
  • Life Drawing
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Raphael, The School of Athens: Drawing in the Design Process
  • Gateway to Art: Kahlo, The Two Fridas: Artist Sketchbooks
  • Chapter 2.2 Painting
  • The First Paintings
  • Encaustic
  • Fresco
  • Tempera
  • Oil
  • Ink Painting
  • Watercolor and Gouache
  • Acrylic
  • Mixed-Media Painting
  • Mural Art and Spray Paint
  • FEATURES
  • José Clemente Orozco: Fresco Painting Inspired by the Mexican Revolution
  • Gateway to Art: Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes: The Artist in the Act of Painting
  • Chapter 2.3 Printmaking
  • Context of Printmaking
  • Relief Printmaking
  • Intaglio Printmaking
  • Collagraphy
  • Lithography
  • Serigraphy (Silkscreen Printing)
  • Editions
  • Monotypes and Monoprints
  • Print Shops and Digital Reproduction Services
  • Contemporary Directions in Printmaking
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa”: Using the Woodblock Printing Me
  • Chapter 2.4 Sculpture
  • Approaches to Three Dimensions in Sculpture
  • Bas-Relief and High Relief
  • Methods of Sculpture
  • Pushing beyond Traditional Methods
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Maya Lintel Showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc: Varying Degrees of Relief for Emphas
  • Michelangelo
  • Antony Gormley: Asian Field
  • Chapter 2.5 Architecture
  • Structure, Function, and Form
  • Ancient Construction
  • Classical Architectural Styles
  • The Emergence of the Methods and Materials of the Modern World
  • The Postmodern Reaction to Modernism
  • Currents in Architecture
  • FEATURES
  • Abbot Suger and the Dynamics of Gothic Architecture
  • Gateway to Art: The Taj Mahal: Engineering Eternity
  • Contrasting Ideas in Modern Architecture: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright’s F
  • Zaha Hadid: A Building for Exciting Events
  • Chapter 2.6 The Tradition of Craft
  • Ceramics
  • Glass
  • Metalwork
  • Fiber
  • Wood
  • FEATURES
  • Hyo-In Kim: Art or Craft: What’s the Difference?
  • San Ildefonso-Style Pottery
  • Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach
  • Chapter 2.7 Visual Communication Design
  • The Visual Character of Text
  • The Communicative Image
  • Layout Design
  • Web Design
  • FEATURES
  • Influence of the Bauhaus on Visual Design
  • April Greiman: Does It Make Sense? Greiman’s Design Quarterly #133, 1986
  • Color in Visual Communication Design
  • Chapter 2.8 Photography
  • Recording the Image: Film to Digital
  • The Dawn of Photography
  • Negative/Positive Process in Black and White
  • In Living Color
  • Photojournalism
  • Photocollage and Photomontage
  • Postmodern Return to Historic Processes
  • The Art of Photography
  • FEATURES
  • Traditional and Alternative Darkroom Methods
  • Steve McCurry
  • Gateway to Art: Weems, Kitchen Table Series: Story Telling and Sto-re-telling
  • Chapter 2.9 Film/Video and Digital Art
  • Moving Images before Film
  • Silent and Black-and-White Film
  • Sound and Color
  • Animation and Special Effects
  • Film Genres
  • Film as Art
  • FEATURE
  • Bill Viola: How Did Video Become Art?
  • Chapter 2.10 Alternative Media and Processes
  • Context of Alternative Media
  • Conceptual Art
  • Performance Art
  • Installation and Environments
  • Out of the Shadows and into the Light: Enlivened Gallery Space
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and Colored Vases: Art that Resists Categories
  • Molly Gochman: Bringing Light to the Scars

Part 3. History And Context

• • Timeline
  • Chapter 3.1 The Prehistoric and Ancient Mediterranean
  • Prehistoric Art in Europe and the Mediterranean
  • Mesopotamia: The Cradle of Civilization
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Art of Ancient Greece
  • Etruscan Art
  • Roman Art
  • FEATURES
  • Hieroglyphs
  • Zahi Hawass: The Golden Mask of Tutankhamun
  • Classical Architectural Orders
  • Controversy about the Parthenon Marbles
  • Stylistic Changes in the Sculpture of Ancient Greece
  • Chapter 3.2 Art of the Middle Ages
  • Art of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity
  • Byzantine Art
  • Manuscripts and the Middle Ages
  • Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages
  • The Rise of the Gothic
  • From the Gothic to Early Renaissance in Italy
  • FEATURES
  • Three Religions of the Middle Ages
  • Iconoclasm: Destruction of Religious Images
  • Chapter 3.3 Art of India, China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
  • India
  • China
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Southeast Asia
  • FEATURES
  • Philosophical and Religious Traditions in Asia
  • Gateway to Art: The Taj Mahal: The Gardens of Paradise in the Taj Mahal
  • The Spread of the Image of Buddha along the Silk Road
  • Gateway to Art: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn: The Value of Art: Questions of History and Au
  • The Three Perfections: Calligraphy, Painting, Poetry
  • Sonoko Sasaki: Arts and Tradition in Japan
  • Gateway to Art: Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa”: Mount Fuji: The Sacred Mountain
  • Chapter 3.4 Art of the Americas
  • When’s the Beginning?
  • South America
  • Mesoamerica
  • North America
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Maya Lintel Showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc: Invoking Ancestors through Bloodlett
  • “We Are the Mirrors”: Legislation and Activism to Protect Native Rights and Land
  • Chapter 3.5 Art of Africa and the Pacific Islands
  • Art of Africa
  • African Architecture
  • Art of the Pacific Islands
  • FEATURE
  • Paul Tacon: Australian Rock Art
  • Chapter 3.6 Art of Renaissance and Baroque Europe (1400–1750)
  • The Early Renaissance in Italy
  • The Renaissance in Northern Europe
  • The High Renaissance in Italy
  • Late Renaissance and Mannerism
  • Italian Baroque
  • Northern Baroque
  • FEATURES
  • Van Eyck, Panofsky, and Iconographic Analysis
  • Gateway to Art: Raphael, The School of Athens: Past and Present in the Painting
  • Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation: A Comparison through Last Suppers
  • Gateway to Art: Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes: The Influence of Caravaggio
  • Depictions of David
  • Chapter 3.7 Art of Europe andAmerica (1700–1865): Rococo to Romanticism
  • Rococo
  • Rejecting the Rococo: Sentimentality in Painting
  • Neoclassicism
  • Romanticism
  • FEATURES
  • The French Academy of Painting and Sculpture: Making a Living as an Artist
  • Slavery and Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Art
  • Chapter 3.8 The Modern Aesthetic: Realism to Expressionism
  • Art Academies and Modernism
  • Realism
  • A Revolutionary Invention: Photography and Art in the Nineteenth Century
  • Impressionism
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Symbolism
  • Fin de Siècle and Art Nouveau
  • Expressionism
  • FEATURES
  • Influences on the Impressionists: Japanese Woodcuts and Photography
  • Gateway to Art: Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes: Variations on a Theme
  • Chapter 3.9 Late Modern and Early Contemporary Art in the Twentieth Century
  • The Revolution of Color and Form
  • Dada
  • Surrealism
  • The Influence of Cubism
  • Early Twentieth-Century Art in America
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Pop Art
  • Minimalism
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Kahlo, The Two Fridas: Was She a Surrealist?
  • Modern and Postmodern Architecture
  • Chapter 3.10 The Late Twentieth Century and Art of the Present Day
  • Conceptual Art
  • Performance and Body Art
  • Earthworks
  • Postmodernism, Identity, and Multiculturalism
  • Narratives of Fact and Fiction
  • Installation
  • Socially Engaged Art
  • FEATURES
  • Borrowing an Image
  • Gateway to Art: Weems, Kitchen Table Series: Personal and Cultural Narrative
  • Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Ideas Recontextualized
  • Gabriel Dawe: Materializing Light, Inverting Constructs

Part 4. Themes

• • Chapter 4.1 Art and Community
  • Places to Gather
  • Art by and for the Community
  • Man-Made Mountains
  • Rituals and Art of Healing and Community Solidarity
  • Art in the Public Sphere
  • FEATURES
  • Art, Super-Sized
  • Richard Serra: A Sculptor Defends His Work
  • Chapter 4.2 Spirituality and Art
  • Gods, Deities, and Enlightened Beings
  • Spirits and Ancestors
  • Connecting with the Gods
  • Sacred Places
  • Personal Paths to Spirituality
  • FEATURE
  • Judgment and the Afterlife
  • Chapter 4.3 Art and the Cycle of Life
  • Life’s Beginnings and Endings
  • Marking Time
  • Lineage and Ancestors
  • Mortality and Immortality
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: The Taj Mahal: Mumtaz Mahal: A Life Remembered
  • Christian Marclay, The Clock: “Glue” by Darian Leader
  • Vanitas: Reminders of Transience
  • Chapter 4.4 Art and Science
  • Art Celebrating Science
  • Astronomy and Space Exploration in Art
  • Using Science and Mathematics to Create Art
  • Perception, Senses, and Psychology
  • Science as a Tool to Understand and Care for Art
  • Chapter 4.5 Art, Illusion, and Transformation
  • Art as an Illusionistic Window
  • Illusionism as Trickery
  • Illusion and the Transformation of Ideas
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Raphael, The School of Athens: Architectural Illusion
  • Satirizing Illusionism: Hogarth’s False Perspective
  • Art and Spiritual Transformation
  • Chapter 4.6 Art of Political Leaders and Rulers
  • Iconic Portraiture of Leaders
  • Female Rulers
  • Art Used by Rulers to Regulate Society
  • FEATURE
  • Gateway to Art: Maya Lintel Showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc: Queens in Support of Their Husbands
  • Chapter 4.7 Art, War, and Revolution
  • Documenting the Tragedies of War
  • Warriors and Battle Scenes
  • The Artist’s Response to War
  • Remembrance and Memorials
  • FEATURE
  • Wafaa Bilal: Domestic Tension: An Artist’s Protest against War
  • Chapter 4.8 Art of Protestand Social Conscience
  • Art as Protest and Activism
  • Art as the Victim of Protest: Censorship and Destruction
  • Art that Raises Social Awareness
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and Colored Vases: The Art of Activism: Speaki
  • Censorship of Art: The Nazi Campaign against Modern Art
  • Gateway to Art: Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa”: Using Famous Art to Make a Soci
  • Chapter 4.9 The Body in Art
  • Archetypal Images of the Body
  • Ideal Proportion
  • Notions of Beauty
  • Performance Art: The Body Becomes the Artwork
  • The Body in Pieces
  • The Body Reframed
  • FEATURES
  • Reclining Nudes
  • Spencer Tunick: Human Bodies as Installations
  • Henri Matisse: The Blue Nude: Cutouts and the Essence of Form
  • Gateway to Art: Kahlo, The Two Fridas: A Body in Pain
  • Chapter 4.10 Identity, Race, and Gender in Art
  • Self-Portraits
  • Challenging the Status Quo
  • Culture on Display
  • Identity and Ambiguity
  • FEATURES
  • Gateway to Art: Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes: Self-Expression in the Judith Paintings
  • Cindy Sherman: The Artist and Her Identity
  • Gateway to Art: Weems, Kitchen Table Series: Cultural Diplomacy