Understanding Art (with ArtExperience CD-ROM) (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Softcover

Fichner-Rathus, Lois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495006920 ISBN 13: 9780495006923

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2006

Synopsis

A market leading text for the art appreciation course, UNDERSTANDING ART combines its strong coverage of art history, with comprehensive coverage and presentation of the visual elements, principles of design, and media to provide a well-balanced discussion of the relevance and beauty of art and the media and methods used to produce art.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Comprehensive and balanced, this widely-adopted introduction to art appreciation communicates the excitement, relevance, and beauty of art by combining stimulating discussions of the language and elements of art with extensive treatment of the history of art. It is especially designed to give non-art majors insights and access to art so that it may enrich them for a lifetime.

From the Back Cover:

Non-western art and Women artists will get even greatercoverage and the emphasis on critical thinking. Materialwas also added on criticism and observation, and conservationand restoration. A major new design will feature improvedboxes and maps.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495006920
• ISBN 13: 9780495006923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576