ID | 010846 |
Call Number | 709/CAV |
Title Proper | Art for beginners |
Language | ENG |
Author | Cavallaro, Dani ; Vago-Hughes, Carline |
Publication | New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2000. |
Description | 185p Gray spine |
Series | For beginners |
Note | Examines different understandings of art both in ideas and practice. Discusses the concept of art being the creation of images as making ourselves, knowing how these images are constructed in particular cultures and how people are fashioned economically, racially and sexually by the images that surrouind them. |
Note | 1. Reading images The constructed image The 'speaking' image Patterns of illusion 2. What is art? The expressive urge The 'body' of work Art and the 'other' 3. Art as a document The image as record Time leaps Facts and fictions 4. The concept of the artist Questioning 'genius' Changing roles Woman as artist 5. Aesthetics What is the 'aesthetic'? Exploring the imagination Avant-Garde. Modernisn and Postmodernism 6. Semiotics Reality and perception Works and contexts Working with signs 7. Space and perspective: structure, form and meaning Composition From content to form Shapes in space 8. Materials and techniques Art in practice A mini-gallery Material worlds 9. Colour and culture Colour in theory Cultural and symbolic variations Colour and light 10. Genres Allegory and symbolism The nude and the portrait Landscape and genre painting 11. Conclusion: Consuming art
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Standard Number | 8125019154 |
Price. Qualification | Rs.220(Pb) |
Classification Number | 709 |
Key Words | Artists ; Art ; Art - History ; IBDP ; Transfer to IBDP ; Art - Comic books, strips, etc. |