Understanding Art, Non-Media Version - Softcover

Fichner-Rathus, Lois

3.88

148 ratings by Goodreads

9780495095774: Understanding Art, Non-Media Version

Softcover

ISBN 10: 049509577X ISBN 13: 9780495095774

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of 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 title" may belong to another edition of this title.