Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? Art can be anything. The second thing? Learn to draw. With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist. Complementing each of the 101 succinct texts is an equally expressive drawing by the artist, often based on a historical or contemporary work of art, offering a visual correlative to the written thought. Art can be anything is illustrated by a drawing of Duchamp's famous urinal; a description of chiaroscuro art is illuminated by an image after Caravaggio ; a lesson on time and media is accompanied by a view of a Jenny Holzer projection; advice about surviving a critique gains resonance from Piero della Francesca's arrow-pierced Saint Sebastian.101 Things to Learn in Art School offers advice about the issues artists confront across all artistic media, but this is no simple handbook to making art. It is a guide to understanding art as a description of the world we live in, and it is a guide to using art as a medium for thought. And so this book belongs on the reading list of art students, art teachers, and artists, but it also belongs in the library of everyone who cares about art as a way of understanding life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262016216
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108620170
Product Key Features
Book Title
101 Things to Learn in Art School
Author
Kit White
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Art Theory
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
152mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
454g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kit White
Series Title
The MIT Press
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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