Understanding Art by Lois Fichner-Rathus (2006, Package)

Description:

A market leading text for the art appreciation course, UNDERSTANDING ART combines its strong coverage of art history, with comprehensive coverage and presentation of the visual elements, principles of design, and media to provide a well-balanced discussion of the relevance and beauty of art and the media and methods used to produce art.
Benefits:
• NEW! The text features an updated art program with many new images included throughout, reflecting current trends in the field and representing a wide range of mediums. Many new images include contemporary (or post-modern) works including a number by women, artists of color, and art from cultures around the world.
• The "Art Tours" feature photographs and guides by the author, highlighting public art in specific cities around the world, allowing students to experience art where it is located. There are "Art Tours" of Jerusalem, Rome, Paris, London, New York, Washington, D.C. and the two new tours of Chicago and Dallas/Ft. Worth. Each "Art Tour" ends with a note to remind students to go to the web site to obtain more information, including travel tips, maps, links to the museums and other interesting facts about that city.
• Quotes by artists, critics, and others appear throughout to highlight material and place art in context.
• The vivid and dynamic ArtExperience CD-ROM gives students interactive, hands-on experience and access to a host of useful technology resources. The CD-ROM includes video demonstrations of various studio art techniques, interactive exercises that explore the foundations of art, and image flashcards, enhancing students' understanding of art in the world and in the classroom. In addition, the CD-ROM expands the "Compare and Contrast" and "A Closer Look" features from the book. The ArtExperience CD-ROM may be packaged with the text at no additional cost.
• The book's accompanying Web site features an online study guide with related links, exercises, tutorial quizzing, Internet Activities, and a Museum Guide.
• NEW! New artists and works include Eve Sussman, Frank Gehry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rem Koolhaas, Santiago Calatrava, Damien Hirst, Shigeru Ban, Margaret Honda, and Guiseppe Penone to name just a few.
• NEW! The text features increased and/or updated coverage on the land and environmental art movement, graphic design, animation, and new approaches to drawing.
• NEW! New "A Closer Look" topics include Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates (Chapter 9), King Tut: The Face that Launched a Thousand High-Res Images (Chapter 12), Art Meets History: The Funeral of the Pope (Chapter 16), and Jaques-Louis David on a Brooklyn Tennis Court (Chapter 20).
• NEW! New "Compare and Contrast" features include The Piano Lesson(s) by Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden (Chapter 1), Stadium Designs: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? (Chapter 13), and Susannah and the Elders by Tintoretto and Gentileschi (Chapter 16).
• NEW! ThomsonNOW™ for Fichner-Rathus's UNDERSTANDING ART, Eighth Edition, available to be packaged with the text at no additional cost, provides a web-based study system that saves time for students and instructors with diagnostic quizzes, personalized study plans, multimedia resources, and an instructor gradebook.
• NEW! New maps allow for greater understanding of the origins of works in the text.
• The book's strong pedagogy and engaging personal approach focus on the needs of students. The "A Closer Look" feature is geared to help students understand the role of art in