Understanding Art (Book & ArtExperience Online Printed Access Card) - Softcover

Fichner-Rathus, Lois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495905666 ISBN 13: 9780495905660

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2009

Synopsis

A market leading, cutting edge 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

About the Author:

Lois Fichner-Rathus is professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History of The College of New Jersey. She holds a combined undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history, an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and a Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include contemporary art, feminist art history and criticism, and modern art and architecture, as well as the theory and foundations of art and design. She is also the author of Foundations of Art and Design, 2nd Edition, and co-author of Culture & Values: A Survey of the Humanities, 8th Edition. She resides in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0495905666
• ISBN 13: 9780495905660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600