Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 704 REA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 205941 |
--Part 1-- Definition of art - The sense of beauty - Definition of beauty - Distinction between art and beauty - Art as intuition - The classical ideal - Art not uniform - Art and aesthetics - From and expression - The golden section - Limitation of geometrical harmony - Distortion - Pattern - The personal element - Definition of pattern - definition of form - What happens when we look at a picture - Empathy - Sentimentality - The necessity of from - Content - Art without content: pottery - Abstract art - Humanistic art: the portrait - Psychological values - The element of a work of art - Line - Tone - Colour - Form - Unity - Structural motives -- Part 2 -- Primitive art - Bushman paintings - Significance of primitive art - Organic and geometrical art - fusion of organic and geometrical principles - Art and Religion - Art and humanism - Peasant art - National art: Egypt - Coptic art - The pyramids - Egyptian sculpture - Pre-Columbian art - Origin of historical types - Chinese art - Persian art - Byzantine art - Celtic art - The approach to Christian art - Material and immaterial forces - The influence of the church - Gothic art - English Gothic - Renaissance art - Drawings of the Italian masters - The art of drawing - Intellectual art - Realism - Textual and representational realism - Naturalism - Rubens - El Greco - Baroque and rococo - Definition of baroque - Definition of Rococo - The essence of rococo - Landscape painting - The English tradition - Gainsborough - Blake-Turner- Art and nature - Constable - Delacroix - The Impressionists - Renoir - Cézanne - Van Gogh - Gauguin - Henri Rousseau - Picasso - Chagall - The racial factor - Lyricism and symbolism - Expressionism and idealism - The Expressionist movement - Kandinsky - "The Bridge" and the "Blue Rider" groups - Paul Klee - Max Ernst - Salvador Dali- Tachism - Modern sculpture - Henry Moore - Barbara Hepworth-- Part 3. -- The artist's point of view - Tolstoy's point of view - Tolstoy and Wordsworth - Another point of view: Matisse - Communication: feeling and understanding - Art and society - The will-to-form -- The ultimate values - Index.