Mittler - Art in Focus [comprehensive textbook - theory,history] (Glencoe, 2006).pdf

Art in Focus - comprehensive textbook - theory, history

An integrated, chronological approach to the study of art, Art in Focus demonstrates the interrelationships of aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and studio art.

* Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill


* Number Of Pages: 630


* Publication Date: 2005-01-10


* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0078685451


* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780078685453




Unit 1: Creating and Understanding Art


Chapter 1: Art and You


Chapter 2: Developing a Visual Vocabulary


Chapter 3: Creating Art: Media and Processes


Chapter 4: Art Criticism and Aesthetics


Chapter 5: Art History





Unit 2: Art of Early Civilizations


Chapter 6: Art of Earliest Times


Chapter 7: The Art of Ancient Egypt





Unit 3: Art of Rising Civilizations


Chapter 8: Greek Art


Chapter 9: Roman Art





Unit 4: Art of Asia, the Americas, and Africa


Chapter 10: The Art of India, China, and Japan


Chapter 11: The Native Arts of the Americas


Chapter 12: The Arts of Africa





Unit 5: Art in Quest of Salvation


Chapter 13: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art


Chapter 14: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art


Chapter 15: Gothic Art





Unit 6: Art of an Emerging Modern Europe


Chapter 16: The Italian Renaissance


Chapter 17: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe


Chapter 18: Art of Sixteenth-Century Europe


Chapter 19: Baroque Art


Chapter 20: Rococo Art





Unit 7: Art of the Modern Era


Chapter 21: New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art


Chapter 22: Art of the Later Nineteenth Century


Chapter 23: Art of the Early Twentieth Century


Chapter 24: Modern Art Movements to the Present