The Art of Understanding Art - Softcover

Costache, Irina D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470658347 ISBN 13: 9780470658345

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.

• Offers an inquiry―unique among introductory art texts―into the learning process of understanding and appreciating art
• Examines the multiple issues and processes essential to making, analyzing and evaluating art
• Uses cross-cultural examples to help readers develop comprehensive, yet personal, ways of looking at and thinking about art
• Includes an annotated glossary of the 'Art World', institutions and individuals that play a role in defining art as well as diagrams, textboxes callouts and other visual elements to highlight information and enhance learning
• Richly illustrated with over 40 images
• Suggests innovative class assignments and projects useful for developing lesson plans, and offers an online companion site for additional illustrations and information

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Art of Understanding Art is a truly innovative textbook that presents and explains “behind the scene” activities, methods and tools involved in the creation, dissemination, analysis and interpretation of art. Addressing topics not usually covered in traditional introductory texts―provenance, art conservation, art classification, primary and secondary textual research sources, museums and the web, copyrights―the book is a comprehensive guide to deciphering and appreciating the riotous visual world that is now backdrop to our daily lives.

Rather than offering an inventory of masterpieces and artists, The Art of Understanding Art reveals a novel pedagogical vision designed to educate readers to develop a global visual literacy, and an understanding of art that is distinctly related to, and transformative of, the way they view the world. Ample pedagogical material―useful introductions, text boxes, a glossary of institutions and individuals, innovative class assignments, projects useful for developing lesson plans, and an accompanying companion website enables The Art of Understanding Art to expose new possibilities for teaching, learning, and reflecting about art.

About the Author:

Irina D. Costache, Ph.D., is an art historian and Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands. Her innovative teaching methodologies have been recognized with awards and grants. She has curated several exhibitions, including Postmodern Calligraphies, Nature and/or Technology and Line and Color. Her presentations and publications include This is Not a Painting: Art History and the Internet, Visual Culture/ Virtual Art, Italian Futurism and the Decorative Arts, and Futurist Film: an Incomplete Project.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470658347
• ISBN 13: 9780470658345
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296