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
