UNDERSTANDING ART 5E - Softcover

FICHNER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155066862 ISBN 13: 9780155066861

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

This art text is designed to stimulate interest in all aspects of visual art, with coverage and illustrations of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, photography and crafts, dating from prehistory to the modern day. Lois Fichner-Rathus discusses the relevance and beauty of art, the media and methods used to produce art, and the place of art not just within its own history, but of civilization. Each chapter features different perspectives on multiple treatments of one subject, for example, how the "Mona Lisa" has figured as a subject throughout the history of art. There are also specialist insights into topics not usually covered, such as women weavers in Ancient Greece.

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: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0155066862
• ISBN 13: 9780155066861
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 516