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Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, 5th Edition

Margaret Lazzari, Dona Schlesier

  • Copyright 2016
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Overview

Making art relevant to students' everyday lives, EXPLORING ART: A GLOBAL, THEMATIC APPROACH, 5E provides a solid foundation of art basics and then presents art from Western and non-Western cultures through themes such as religion, power and politics, sexuality, mind and body, mortality and immortality, nature and technology, and entertainment and visual culture. This thematic approach to art appreciation keeps students fully engaged in the study of art. "Art Experiences" features in every chapter and an all-new Chapter 15, "Art in Your Life," draw explicit connections between art and students' lives, illustrating how art is all around us as well as providing suggestions for interacting with art. Timelines with thumbnail images help students easily draw chronological connections between works, and detailed world maps illustrate geographical relevance. In addition to new works, the fifth edition offers expanded representation of contemporary artists from around the globe. Also available with the fifth edition, MindTap equips students with the ultimate personal learning experience through an interactive eBook, digital activities, author videos for each chapter, apps, and more. EXPLORING ART gives students an appreciation for artworks and art styles across time and across the globe.

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Meet the Authors

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Margaret Lazzari

Margaret Lazzari is a professor of drawing and painting at the University of Southern California. An active writer and artist, Margaret's drawings and paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States. She is half of the Lazzari Evans Public Art Design Team.

Dona Schlesier

Dona Schlesier taught for 27 years at Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa, where she is now professor emerita. Her drawings and multimedia have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

What's New

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  • NEW Chapter Opener Videos: Available on MindTap™ for EXPLORING ART, brief videos feature the authors addressing key concepts of the chapter and answering the question "Why do these ideas and artworks matter in everyday life?"
  • NEW "Art Experiences" Activities: Featured in each chapter, engaging "Art Experiences" help students relate their daily lives and experiences to art and art making. Students are prompted to create artwork in various media that relate to themes or concepts discussed in the chapter.
  • NEW Chapter 15: "Art in Your Life" demonstrates how students can put into action all that they have learned in their art appreciation course and makes explicit connections between their daily lives and the art around them.
  • Major Revisions to Chapter 1: "Art and Art Making" combines and condenses discussions previously presented in Chapters 1 and 5, examining definitions of art as well as how it is described and classified and how it acts as a part of our culture.
  • Redesigned Timelines: Now with a horizontal orientation, the timelines include additional thumbnail images so that students can more easily draw chronological connections between works. A fully interactive timeline is available on MindTap™, allowing students to examine the chronology of multiple themes at once.

Features

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  • EXPLORING ART's engaging global and thematic approach allows for full integration of non-Western traditions throughout the book, giving students an appreciation for artworks and art styles across time and around the world.
  • Chapters in Part I present art foundations to equip students with the necessary vocabulary and knowledge to fully engage with the thematic coverage in Part II. Themes in Part II fall into four categories: survival and beyond, religion, the state, and self and society. These themes allow the authors to place art in a variety of contexts, which gives students a sense of the diversity of meanings possible in a single work.
  • Helping reinforce important concepts, the popular "Connection" boxes found throughout the text cross-reference related works, artists, cultures, ideas, and themes.
  • "History Focus" boxes begin each thematic chapter in Part II, with summaries of world history events and developments in religions, technology, and social structures. The boxes put chapter material into context, providing an integration of art with historical developments.
  • Timelines in all ten thematic chapters vividly illustrate the visual progression of historical events and cultural trends.
  • Presented at the start of the thematic chapters, World Art Maps help students trace historical developments and locate the geographic origins of artwork.

Table of Contents

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Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ART.
1. Art and Art Making.
2. The Language of Art and Architecture.
3. Media.
4. Deriving Meaning.
Part II: WHY DO WE MAKE ART?
Section 1. Survival and Beyond.
5. Food and Shelter.
6. Reproduction and Sexuality.
Section 2. Religion.
7. Deities and Places of Worship.
8. Mortality and Immortality.
Section 3. The State.
9. Power, Politics, and Glory.
10. Social Protest/Affirmation.
Section 4. Self and Society.
11. The Body.
12. Race, Gender, Clan, and Class.
13. Nature, Knowledge, and Technology.
14. Entertainment and Visual Culture.
15. Art in Your Life.

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MindTap Art, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach

ISBN: 9781305114531
MindTap Art and Humanities for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, 5th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, activities that allow students to explore the connections between art and their daily lives, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Access to this product is valid for 6 months of usage.

MindTap Art, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, Enhanced Edition

ISBN: 9781337281737
MindTap Art for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, Enhanced Edition, 5th Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform students into critical thinkers. The new eBook reader’s two-pane design allows students to view images on the left side while reading about them in the scrolling text discussion on the right. The image integration extends to the eBook’s navigation, which shows in one place all of the images within a chapter. The MindTap also offers “In the Studio” artist videos, chapter-opener author videos, and suggestions for art projects, which help students understand the relevance of art.

FOR STUDENTS

MindTap Art, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach

ISBN: 9781305114531
MindTap Art and Humanities for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, 5th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, activities that allow students to explore the connections between art and their daily lives, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Access to this product is valid for 6 months of usage.

MindTap Art, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, Enhanced Edition

ISBN: 9781337281737
MindTap Art for Lazzari/Schlesier's Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, Enhanced Edition, 5th Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform students into critical thinkers. The new eBook reader’s two-pane design allows students to view images on the left side while reading about them in the scrolling text discussion on the right. The image integration extends to the eBook’s navigation, which shows in one place all of the images within a chapter. The MindTap also offers “In the Studio” artist videos, chapter-opener author videos, and suggestions for art projects, which help students understand the relevance of art.