Book description
The Art of Understanding Art
reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of
developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them
with confidence.
- Offers an inquiry-unique among introductory art texts-into the
learning process of understanding and appreciating art
- Examines the multiple issues and processes essential to making,
analyzing and evaluating art
- Uses cross-cultural examples to help readers develop
comprehensive, yet personal, ways of looking at and thinking about art
- Includes an annotated glossary of the 'Art World', institutions
and individuals that play a role in defining art as well as
diagrams, textboxes callouts and other visual elements to highlight
information and enhance learning
- Richly illustrated with over 40 images
- Suggests innovative class assignments and projects useful for
developing lesson plans, and offers an online companion site for
additional illustrations and information
Irina D. Costache, Ph. D.
, is an art historian and Professor of Art History at California State
University Channel Islands. Her innovative teaching methodologies have
been recognized with awards and grants. She has curated several
exhibitions, including Postmodern Calligraphies
, Nature and/or Technology
and Line and Color
. Her presentations and publications include This is Not a Painting:
Art History and the Internet
, Visual Culture/ Virtual Art
, Italian Futurism and the Decorative Arts
, and Futurist Film: an Incomplete Project
.
