| Publication |
New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2000.
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| Description |
185pGray spine
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| Series |
For beginners
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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 Pb.
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