How to look at and understand great art
Item details
- ISBN: 1598037358
- ISBN: 9781598037357
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Physical Description:
videorecording
videodisc
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
Contents / Notes
General Note: | 36 lectures each 30 minutes per lecture. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Course guidebook 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. |
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 |
Genre: | Filmed lectures. Instructional films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Feature films -- United States. |
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