Where Does Art Come From? / Leah McCurdy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCurdy, Leah, author.

Series:

Open textbook library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History--Study and teaching.

Art.

Arts--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Arlington, Texas : Mavs Open Press, [2022]

Summary:

Who am I? What is beautiful? Where do babies come from? These questions populate our lives and inform our perceptions of the world. Explore these questions according to the expressions of artists from all over the world. Go beyond Western art to consider where art comes from and how it impacts all of us. Where Does Art Come From? focuses on global arts and culture for the UTA core curriculum art history introductory course ART 1317 "Arts of Africa, Asia, Islam, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas."

Contents:

About the Publisher

Accessibility Statement

About This Project

Acknowledgments

How to Read this Book & Land Acknowledgment

1. Where Does Art Come From? An Introduction

2. Where Are We Going?

3. Who Am I?

4. What Is Divine?

5. What Is Beautiful?

6. What Is Important to Us?

7. Will You Tell a Story?

8. Who Came Before Us?

9. Where Do Babies Come From?

10. What Happens When We Die?

11. Why Does Size Matter?

12. What Will I Get Out of It?

13. Why Do They Have More Than Us?

14. Why Do I Have to Do What You Say?

15. Why Do People Take What Doesn't Belong to Them?

16. Can We Live Together?

17. Neheb is Dead by Emery Martinez-Blas

18. We will Never Be Perfect and That's Okay by Celeste Smith

19. The Post-Colonial Igbo Identity by Chinamerem Ahuchaogu

Image Credits

Accessibility Rubric

Timelapses for Transformational Sketches

Errata and Versioning History

Mental Maps of Art History.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Open textbook library, viewed May 05, 2023).