Visual Arts Guide

This basic survey of the visual arts—two-dimensional art, sculpture, decorative arts and crafts, photography and cinema— provides the fundamental principles about visual art and its media with a concise survey of Western art history including Byzantine and Islamic art. The volume is designed to stimulate and involve readers in an active pursuit of new experience by including numerous works of art that can be studied on the Internet. The volume explains what art does, how art is put together, two dimensional art, sculpture and decorative arts and crafts, photography and cinema, renaissance to enlightenment, romanticism, realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, and art nouveau, the explosion of art in the early to mid-twentieth century and pluralism in a postmodern world. For beginning art enthusiasts and other interested in expanding their appreciation of art.