How to look at and understand great art.
Record details
- ISBN: 1598037358
- ISBN: 9781598037357
- Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
- Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | 36 lectures each 30 minutes per lecture. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1: The importance of first Impressions -- Where am I? point of view and focal point -- Color: description, symbol and more -- Line: description and expression -- Space, shape, shade, and shadow -- Seeing the big picture: composition -- Disc 2: The illusion: getting the right perspective -- Art that moves us: time and motion -- Feeling with our eyes: texture and light -- Drawing: dry, liquid, and modern media -- Printmaking: relief and intaglio -- Modern printmaking: planographic -- disc 3: Sculpture: salt cellars to monuments -- Development of painting: tempera and oils -- Modern painting: acrylics and assemblages -- Subject matters -- Signs: symbols, icons, and indexes in art -- Portraits: how artists see others -- disc 4: Self-portraits: how artists see themselves -- Landscapes: art of the great outdoors -- Putting it all together -- Early Renaissance: humanism emergent -- Northern Renaissance: devil in the details -- High Renaissance: humanism perfected -- disc 5: Mannerism and Baroque: distortion and drama -- Going Baroque: north versus south -- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo -- Revolutions: neoclassicism and romanticism -- From Realism to Impressionism -- Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed -- disc 6: Expressionism: empathy and emotion -- Cubism: an experiment in form -- Abstraction/Modernism: new visual language -- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams -- Postmodernism: focus on the viewer -- Your next museum visit: do it yourself. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | The Teaching Company. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lectures delivered by Sharon Latchaw Hirsh, Rosemont College. |
System Details Note: | DVD, NTSC. |
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Subject: | Art > History. Art appreciation. |
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Erlanger Branch | 709 HOW TO (Text) | 33126017697958 | Recorded Lectures | Available | - |