BRIEF CONTENTS
About Living with Art ix
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 2
1 Living with Art 3
2 What Is Art? 21
3 Themes of Art 55
PART TWO: THE VOCABULARY OF ART 80
4 The Visual Elements 81
5 Principles of Design 119
PART THREE: TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA 142
6 Drawing 143
7 Painting 159
8 Prints 181
9 Camera and Computer Arts 204
10 Graphic Design 230
PART FOUR: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA 244
11 Sculpture and Installation 245
12 Arts of Ritual and Daily Life 268
13 Architecture 288
PART FIVE: ARTS IN TIME 326
14 Ancient Mediterranean Worlds 327
15 Christianity and the Formation of Europe 355
16 The Renaissance 372
17 The 17th and 18th Centuries 396
18 Arts of Islam and of Africa 420
19 Arts of Asia: India, China, and Japan 435
20 Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas 464
21 The Modern World: 1800–1945 483
22 From Modern to Postmodern 512
23 Contemporary Art around the World 538
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