CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1 Abstraction
2 Allegory
3 Ambiguity
4 Appropriation
5 Areas of Competence
6 Authenticity and Outsider Art
7 Autobiography
8 Balance
9 Beauty
10 Boundaries
11 Brush Techniques
12 Chance
13 Classicism and Renaissance
14 Collage and Assemblage
15 Color as Light
16 Color as Limit
17 Color Theory
18 Composition
19 Conceptual Art
20 Consistency of Visual Language
21 Craft
22 Creativity
23 Cross-Cultural Fertilization
24 Cubism
25 Dada
26 Decoration
27 Distortion
28 Distribution
29 Drawing Language
30 The Emotive Object
31 Erotic Art
32 Expression in the Abstract
33 Fantasy and Visionary Art
34 Finish
35 Formal Innovation
36 Form Rendered
37 Gender
38 Harmony
39 Hierarchical Proportion
40 Imagination
41 Installation
42 Intentionality
43 Interactive Art
44 Juxtaposition
45 Kinetic Art
46 Land Art
47 Layers
48 Linear Basics
49 Mannerism
50 Mass
51 Materials as Art
52 Minimalism
53 Mixed Media and Multimedia
54 Motif
55 Movement
56 Narrative
57 Op Art
58 Overload
59 Performance Art
60 Perspective
61 Plasticity
62 Politics and Polemics
63 Prepare and Develop
64 Printmaking
65 Process as Meaning
66 Proportion and Ratio
67 Quality
68 Quoting
69 Readymades
70 Realism
71 Religiosity
72 Repetition
73 Representation
74 Restraint
75 Rhythm
76 Romanticism
77 Scale
78 Semiotics
79 Semiotics 2: Deconstruction
80 Sensitivity and Sensibility
81 Shape
82 Shock
83 Simplification
84 Space and Volume
85 Spectacle
86 Style and Stylishness
87 Successive Approximation
88 Sufficiency of Means
89 Surrealism
90 Symbols
91 Symmetry
92 Temporary Art
93 Texture
94 Theme
95 Tone as Structure
96 Touch Communicates
97 Tribal Art
98 Trompe l’Oeil
99 Underpainting
100 Video Art
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments