Table of Contents

PART I: THE LANGUAGE OF ART. 1. The Power of Art. 2. The Primary Elements. 3. The Principles of Design. PART II: THE ARTIST'S MATERIALS AND TOOLS. 4. Drawing. 5. Painting. 6. Printmaking. 7. Photography. 8. New Media: Time and Digital Arts. 9. Sculpture. 10. Architecture. 11. Decorative Arts, Crafts and Design. PART III: A GLOBAL HERITAGE. 12. Ancient Empires, Ancient Gods. 13. The Age of Faith. 14. The Renaissance. 15. Drama and Light: Mannerism, The Baroque, and Rococo. PART IV: THE MODERN ERA. 16. The Battle of the Ism's: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism. 17. Out of the Studio and into the Light: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. 18. The Real World on Trial: The Early Twentieth Century. 19. The Invisible Made Visible: Abstract and Nonrepresentational Art. 20. A Storm of Images: Art in the Contemporary World.

Author Biography

Susan Lewis currently teaches at SUNY New Paltz. Richard Lewis is Professor of Art and Dean at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he has taught for 20 years. He is very active in the field of digital art and media, and authored a textbook on multimedia (Prentice Hall in 2003).