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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Written to engage and inspire students with little or no previous
experience in studio art or art history, the third edition of
Approaches to Art: A New Introduction to Art History employs an
accessible postmodern approach to a general education course,
introducing readers to seminal works of art throughout time. This
edition features increased coverage of art by people of color and
women, exposing students to diverse artists and restructuring the
ways in which "key figures" and "important artists" are introduced
to them. The text features more than 100 new images and a timely
focus on issues of agency, identity, and social equity. The book
includes the essential information presented in an introductory art
history course-visual elements, principles of design, style, media,
and historical context-in a compelling format that encourages
critical thinking and multicultural visual literacy. Students learn
not only the parts of art, but also develop a deeper understanding
of art's power to communicate on multiple levels-universal,
cultural, and personal.
Nazar, literally 'vision', is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept
that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which
Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped
by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the
act of 'seeing' with the act of 'reflecting', thereby bringing the
visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within
the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web
of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific
precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the
intricacy of one's personal belief. Peering through the lens of
nazar, the studies presented in this volume unravel aspects of
these entanglements to provide new understandings of how vision,
belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture.
Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sushma Griffin, Stephen
Hirtenstein, Virginia Hooker, Sakina Nomanbhoy, Shaha Parpia, Ellen
Philpott-Teo, Wendy M.K. Shaw.
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