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World of Art, A, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (April 19, 2019) © 2016

  • Henry M. Sayre

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Content and features that facilitate critical thinking
• NEW! Seven thematic chapters help students identify, understand, and think critically about major themes in art that transcend different eras and regions. Each of these new chapters approaches its theme from both an historical and a global perspective.
• Spiritual Belief• The Cycle of Life
• Love and Sex• The Body, Gender, and Identity
• The Individual and Cultural Identity• Power
• Science, Technology, and the Environment
• The Creative Process features highlight the artists’ own techniques and critical thinking processes as they created particular works.  
•The Critical Process feature at the end of each chapter poses a number of questions based on the chapter material to provoke classroom discussion. By comparing these responses to their own, students can evaluate the quality of their thinking. 
• Chapter-opening learning objectives lead students to focus on, and think critically about, the chapter’s important issues.Thinking Back end-of-chapter reviews follow up on the learning objectives, helping students review, and further engage with, the material they’ve just read.
• A Student Toolkit in the preface of A World of Art provides convenience reference points for those new to the study of art appreciation.
• Seven Steps to Thinking Critically about Art serves as a helpful checklist for how to analyze works of art critically.
• A Quick-Reference Guide to the Elements of Art outlines the fundamental terminology and concepts of art.• A Do-And-Don’t Guide to Visiting Museums helps students prepare to experience works of art in person.

An image program that fosters visual literacy
• NEW! Over 100 new and updated contemporary art images showcase the latest developments in the contemporary art world.
• NEW! New and updated non-Western art images—including reproductions from Africa, India, China, and Japan—help students see cultural diversity throughout the world of art.
Part I – The Visual World: Understanding the Art You See
1. Discovering a World of Art
2. Developing Visual Literacy

Part II – The Formal Elements and Their Design: Describing the Art You See
3. Line
4. Shape and Space
5. Light and Color
6. Texture, Time, and Motion
7. The Principles of Design    

Part III – The Fine Arts Media: Learning How Art Is Made
8. Drawing
9. Painting
10. Printmaking
11. Photography and Time-Based Media
12. Sculpture
13. The Craft Media
14. Architecture
15. The Design Profession

Part IV – The Visual Record: Placing the Arts in Historical Context
16. The Ancient World
17. The Age of Faith    
18. The Renaissance through the Baroque
19. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
20. From 1900 to the Present

Part V – The Themes of Art: Seeing Continuity and Change over Time    
21. Spiritual Belief
22. The Cycle of Life
23. Love and Sex
24. The Body, Gender, and Identity
25. The Individual and Cultural Identity    
26. Power
27. Science, Technology, and the Environment
Henry M. Sayre is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University—Cascades Campus in Bend, Oregon. He is producer and creator of the 10-part television series A World of Art: Works in Progress, which aired on PBS in the fall of 1997; and author of seven books, including The Humanities; Writing About Art; The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams; The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970; and an art history book for children, Cave Paintings to Picasso.

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