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Hirsh, Sharon L.
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Portrait painters -- Psychology.
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Hirsh, Sharon L.
Art.
Art appreciation.
Art -- History.
Art -- Study and teaching.
Art criticism -- Study and teaching.
Portrait painters -- Psychology.
Art museum visitors.
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How to look at and understand great
art
[videorecording (DVD)] / Sharon Latchaw Hirsh.
by
Hirsh, Sharon L.
Teaching Co., c2011.
Call #:
DVD 701.18 H669h
Subjects
Art
.
Art
appreciation.
Art
-- History.
Art
-- Study and teaching.
Art
criticism -- Study and teaching.
Portrait painters -- Psychology.
Art
museum
visitors
.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
ISBN:
9781598037357 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. How to look at and understand great
art
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
6 videodiscs (ca. 18 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 p. ; 21 cm.).
Notes:
"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. The importance of first impressions -- Where am I? Point of view and vocal 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 - tempura 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!
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Sharon Latchaw Hirsh, Rosemont College.
Summary:
These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the world of great
art
.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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1
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