| Description |
6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
The Great courses fine arts & music |
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Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Sharon Latchaw Hirsh, Rosemont College. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: The importance of first Impressions -- Where am I? point of view and focal point -- Color: description, symbol and more -- Line: description and expression -- Space, shape, shade, and shadow -- Seeing the big picture: composition -- Disc 2: The illusion: getting the right perspective -- Art that moves us: time and motion -- Feeling with our eyes: texture and light -- Drawing: dry, liquid, and modern media -- Printmaking: relief and intaglio -- Modern printmaking: planographic -- disc 3: Sculpture: salt cellars to monuments -- Development of painting: tempera and oils -- Modern painting: acrylics and assemblages -- Subject matters -- Signs: symbols, icons, and indexes in art -- Portraits: how artists see others -- disc 4: Self-portraits: how artists see themselves -- Landscapes: art of the great outdoors -- Putting it all together -- Early Renaissance: humanism emergent -- Northern Renaissance: devil in the details -- High Renaissance: humanism perfected -- disc 5: Mannerism and Baroque: distortion and drama -- Going Baroque: north versus south -- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo -- Revolutions: neoclassicism and romanticism -- From Realism to Impressionism -- Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed -- disc 6: Expressionism: empathy and emotion -- Cubism: an experiment in form -- Abstraction/Modernism: new visual language -- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams -- Postmodernism: focus on the viewer -- Your next museum visit: do it yourself. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Art appreciation.
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| Added Author |
Hirsh, Sharon L.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598037357 |
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1598037358 |
| Music No. |
7640 Teaching Company |
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