This book is, in fact, unique in its emphasis on the critical thinking process, a process of questioning, exploration, trial and error, and discovery that you can generalize to your own experience. Critical thinking is really a matter of putting yourself in a questioning frame of mind. Without critical thinking, art appreciation can become just a boring exercise in memory work.
Our culture is increasingly dominated by images, and all students today must learn to see and interpret the images that surround them. If you just passively “receive” these images, like some television set, you will never come to understand them. We have worked very hard to provide the tools with which to engage works of art as critical thinkers.
1. A world oof art
2. Developing visual literacy
3. Seeing the value in art
4. Line
5. Space
6. Light and color
7. Other formal elements
8. The principles of design
9. Drawing
10. Printmaking
, etc.