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An Introduction to Art
Author:Charles Harrison
Publisher:New Haven :Yale University Press,2020
Overview:
This book offers clear and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance to the basic character and techniques of the different art forms, to the various genres of painting in the western tradition, and to the techniques of sculpture as they have been practiced over several millenia and across a wide range of cultures.
Location:CityU Library/General Stacks
Call Number:N7425 .H37 2020