Product Description

EXPLORING ART will help you make sense of the world you live in. The authors use examples of art from many cultures to discuss things as fun as entertainment, sport, and the media and as basic as food, nature, and even life and death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35144 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

Review
"The text does an excellent job demonstrating that art is part of our everyday life and a relevant part of all human cultures past and present. The point that art is a key part of human existence and experience is powerfully communicated here. Getting students to think in these terms is, to my mind, the first step in making them more interested in art because it answers the student question, "why should we care?"

About the Author
Margaret Lazzari is an Associate Professor in the School of Fine Arts at University of Southern California. She is an art critic and writer whose books include "Art and Design Fundamentals" (1991), and "The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist" (2nd Ed.). Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States.

Dona Schlesier is Professor of Art at Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in multimedia and video from the University of Iowa. Her drawings and multimedia work have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Customer Reviews

The Textbook I Needed
I rec'd this textbook in a timely fashion, right in time for my online course. The book was required so I was happy to see it! And it is an excellent textbook to go along with the course.

very good
it's brand new and i got it cheaper than in my school bookstore.
It came fast too.

This book is crap-tacular!
If my sock drawer was organized like this book...there would never be a matching pair of socks. The old socks and the new socks would cling together in a wad of static electricity, making it painful to dare try and pull them apart and match them up in any other way. The book lacks fabric softener, and reading it is itchy torture.

But seriously...this book tries to be "smart" by organizing the chapters into "subjects for art",and it doesn't work.
It's stupid!