Research Catalog

Title

Varieties of visual experience / Edmund Burke Feldman.

Author

Feldman, Edmund Burke

Publication

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

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Details

Description

528 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

Feldman investigates the role of art and its purpose in daily life. This edition features more than 800 illustrations, including 221 new color plates, which encompass paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, crafts, industrial design, and stills from films and television. Feldman compares images of different eras, styles, and media, and his selection is a blend of the familiar and the rare. He is articulate about the effect of photography on our visual perceptions. ISBN 0-8109-1735-1 : $40.00 (For use only in the library).

Subjects

• Visual perception
• Composition (Art)
• Art > Philosophy
• Art > Psychology
• Arte
• visual perception
• composition (artistic arrangement)

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 509-511.

Contents

• Pt. 1. The functions of art -- 1. Personal functions of art -- Art and psychological expression -- Love, sex, and marriage -- Death and morbidity -- Spiritual concern -- Aesthetic expression -- 2. The social functions of art -- Political and ideological expression -- Social description -- Satire -- Graphic communication -- Information design -- 3. The physical functions of art -- Architecture : the dwelling -- Large-scale design : the community -- The crafts and industrial design -- Useful objects made by hand and machine
• Pt. 2. The styles of art -- 4. The style of objective accuracy -- The imitation of appearances -- The artist as detached observer -- The artist as selective eye -- Variations of the style -- Device of objective accuracy -- Modern figurative modes -- 5. The style of formal order -- The transient and the permanent -- Kinds of formal order -- Abstract modes of order -- The appeal of sensuous surfaces -- Conclusion -- 6. The style of emotion -- Romanticism and emotion -- Emotion generated by symbols -- The role of distortion -- Anxiety and despair -- Joy and celebration -- 7. The style of fantasy -- Myth -- Drams and hallucinations -- Mystical transcendence through paint -- Scientific fantasy -- Fantasy and illusionism
• Pt. 3. The structure of art -- 8. The visual elements : grammar -- Line -- Shape -- Light and dark -- Color -- Texture -- 9. Organizing the elements : design -- Unity -- Balance -- Rhythm -- Proportion -- Conclusion
• Pt. 4. The interaction of medium and meaning -- 10. Painting -- The fugitive and the permanent -- Direct and indirect techniques -- Brushwork and emotion -- The human image in traditional painting -- The human image in modern painting -- Frottage, grattage, and decalcomania -- The picture and the wall -- Beyond collage : assemblage, environments, happenings -- Mixed media -- Minimal and color-field painting -- The shaped canvas -- Erotic and obscene art -- Conclusion -- 11. Sculpture -- Modeling, carving, casting, and constructing -- The ancestral couple -- From monolith to open form -- Constructivism -- Couples in modern sculpture -- Sculptural assemblage -- Niches, boxes, and grottoes -- Beyond constructivism : primary structures -- Kinetic sculpture -- Sculpture and the crafts -- Conclusion -- 12. Architecture -- The classic materials -- Design in the urban environment -- Modern materials -- The structural devices -- The architecture of interior space -- Constructors and sculptors -- 13. Photography -- Photography and reality -- Photography and painting -- The amateur with a camera -- Instantaneous seeing -- Photojournalism -- Principle of the frame -- Photography and abstraction -- The photographic slide -- The photographer as artist -- Photographic criticism -- 14. Images in motion : film and television -- The manipulation of space-time -- Film and TV types -- Filmed versus televised imagery -- Films and dreams -- The democracy of film -- The critical appreciation of cinema -- Conclusion
• Pt. 5. The problems of art criticism -- 15. The theory of art criticism -- The tools of art criticism -- Types of art criticism -- Kinds of critical judgment -- Conclusion -- 16. The critical performance -- Description -- Formal analysis -- Interpretation -- Judgment -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Time lines.

ISBN

• 0139406026
• 9780139406027
• 0810917351
• 9780810917354

LCCN

86009333

OCLC

• ocm13456093
• 13456093
• SCSB-9673565

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library