Presents an overview of the use of new intellectual and scientific technologies in modern art, discussing the creations of such influential artists as Eadweard Muybridge, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bill Viola and incorporating into the latest edition coverage of new developments in digital work. Original.
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…
Offers introduction to visual arts from several perspectives such as: themes and purposes of art; vocabulary of art; individual art media (painting, drawing, camera arts, sculpture, architecture, and more); and history of art. This book provides illustrations drawn from a range of artistic cultures and time periods.
Living with Art’s approach to art appreciation supports students’ acquisition of the essential skills of the course. Mark Getlein’s vivid narrative, in concert with McGraw-Hill’s powerful adaptive learning program LearnSmart within CONNECT Art, helps students understand, analyze, and appreciate the ways art work communicates to us in our visual world. In doing so, Living with Art provid…