I. ART IS…
1. The Nature of Art. What Is Art? Is Art a Necessity? Purposes and Functions of Art.
2. Awareness, Creativity, and Communication. Visual Thinking. Perception and Awareness. Looking and Seeing. Aesthetics, Art, and Beauty. Art and Experience. Creativity. Untrained and Folk Artists. Trained Artists. Visual Communication. Art and Appearances. Form and Content. Seeing and Responding to Form. Iconography.
II. THE LANGUAGE OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE.
3. Visual Elements. Line. Shape. Mass. Space. Time and Motion. Light. Color. Texture.
4. Principles of Design. Unity and Variety. Balance. Emphasis and Subordination. Directional Forces. Contrast. Repetition and Rhythm. Scale and Proportion. Design Summary.
5. Style. Cultural Style. Period Style. Regional Style. Group Style. Personal Style.
6. Evaluation and Criticism. Evaluation. Art Criticism.
III. TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARTS.
7. Drawing. Purposes of Drawing. Dry Media. Liquid Media.
8. Painting. Watercolor. Tempera. Oil. Acrylic. Encaustic. Fresco.
9. Printmaking. Relief. Intaglio. Lithography. Screenprinting. Current Directions.
10. Camera Arts and Computer Imaging.
Photography. Film: The Moving Image. Television and Video. Digital Art Forms.
11. Graphic Design and Illustration.
Design Disciplines. Graphic Design. Illustration.
IV. THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARTS.
12. Sculpture. Freestanding and Relief Sculpture. Methods and Materials. Kinetic Sculpture. Mixed Media. Installations and Site-Specific Sculpture.
13. Clay, Glass, Metal, Wood, Fiber. Clay. Glass. Metal. Wood. Fiber.
14. Architecture and Environmental Design. Architecture. Environmental Design.
V. ART AS CULTURAL HERITAGE.
15. Prehistoric to Early Civilization. The Paleolithic Period. The Neolithic Period. The Beginnings of Civilization.
16. Ancient through Medieval in the Middle East and Europe. Mesopotamia. Egypt. Greece. Rome. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Middle Ages in Europe.
17. Renaissance and Baroque, Europe. The Renaissance. Baroque.
18. Traditional Arts of Asia. India. Southeast Asia. China. Japan.
19. The Islamic World. Arab Lands. Spain. Persia. India: The Mughal Empire.
20. Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Africa. Oceania and Australia. Native North America. Pre-Columbian Central and South America.
VI. THE MODERN WORLD.
21. Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Neoclassicism. Romanticism. Photography. Realism. Impressionism. The Post-Impressionist Period.
22. Early Twentieth Century. Toward Abstraction. The Fauves and Expressionism. Cubism. The Modern Spirit in America. Futurism and the Celebration of Motion.
23. Between World Wars. Dada. Fantasy and Metaphysics. Surrealism. The Influence of Cubism. Building a New Society. Political Protest. American Painting.
24. Accelerated Change: Modern Art after 1945. Abstract Expressionism and Related Art. Photography and Architecture at Mid-Century. Neo-Dada. Events and Happenings. Pop Art. Minimal and Hard-Edge. Conceptual Art. Site Works and Earthworks. Installations and Environments. Early Feminism. Performance Art. Photorealist Painting and Superrealist Sculpture.
25. Recent Diversity. Postmodern Architecture. Painting. Photography. Sculpture. Public Art. Issue-Oriented Art. The Global Present.
Timeline. Glossary. Pronunciation Guide. Notes. Suggested Readings. Suggested Websites. Index. 
Format: Textbook Paperback, 7th ed., 5
