Making Art: Form and Meaning

Type

Book

Authors

Barrett, Terry

ISBN 10

0072521783

ISBN 13

9780072521788

Tags

081

Abstract

This comprehensive introduction to art and design explores making artifacts as a process of making meaning. Making Art: Form and Meaning offers a framework for understanding how all the aspects of an artwork--subject matter, medium, form, process, and contexts--interact. The text's wide array of examples and its emphasis on late-modernism and postmodern art give students a thorough look at the expressive possibilities of traditional design elements and principles and contemporary practices, including the use of computer-based, time-based, and lens-based media.
With artist quotes, clearly defined key terms, and a chapter dedicated to studio critiques, Making Art allows students to join the conversation of contemporary art and gives them a jump start in thinking and talking about their work using the language and concepts of today's art world.

Description

Making art
Meanings and interpretations
Point, line, shape, mass and volume, texture, and value
Color
Space
Time and motion
Words and sounds
Directional force, size, scale, and proportion
Balance and contrast
Repetition, unity and variety, emphasis and subordination
Postmodernist approaches to making art
Artists' processes and practices
Studio critiques

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