The Art of Understanding Art

A Behind the Scenes Story

Costache, Irina D.

1. Auflage März 2012
276 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-470-65832-1

John Wiley & Sons

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The Art of Understanding Art reveals to readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence. A truly innovative book that presents and explains "behind the scene" activities, methods and tools involved in the creation, dissemination, analysis and interpretation of art.

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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

Acknowledgements
"Read Me First"
Why Is Art Made? The Purposes of Art
Anatomy of a Work of Art

Part I: Making Art
1. Artists and Patrons
2. Environment, Materials, and Context
3. Context

Part II: Disseminating Art
4. The Disseminating of Original Art
5. Disseminating Art Through Reproduction and Other Issues

Part III: Analyzing Art
6. Visual Resources Used to Analyze Art
7. Textual and Other Resources Used To Analyze Art
8. A Critical Examination of Art Classification

Part IV: Interpreting Art
9. Interpreting Art: Criteria and Values
10. Methodologies of Art

Conclusion
References (Notes, Suggested Readings, Films and Websites)
List of Illustrations

Appendices /Additional Material:
* "The Art World"
* Creative Assignments and Writing Projects
* Information (Glossary of artists, art movements, and terms)
* Tools of the Trade Diagrams (1-8): Form and Content(1-5)and Art Media(6-8)

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.

I. D. Costache, California State University, Camarillo, USA