Art and Architecture

16 Ways of Looking at a Photograph serves as an introduction to photography theory, explaining fundamental concepts for theorizing the photograph. 

Alternate Process in Photography: Technique, History, and Creative Potential offers a unique, practitioner's perspective on the history and practice of photographic processes. The book emphasizes handmade, largely historical photographic techniques, and provides detailed information for both beginning and advanced photographers.

Leading historian Dell Upton's Architecture in America reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. It tells the complete story of American architecture, from pre-European conquest sites to the latest post-modern structures.  The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional histories lik...

Art Matters introduces students to the wide range of art that is around them.  Featuring an enormous assortment of types of art that numerous diverse artists have created for different people around the world, it demonstrates how pervasive and critical art is in our lives—from the emojis we text, to the furniture we sit on, to the buildings we live in, to the photographs we see.

Through stories, examples, thoughtful pedagogy, and in-de...

Art of the Non-Western World is an in-depth, contextual exploration of the art of the larger world outside of the Western Tradition. It covers the arts: painting, sculpture, pottery, graphic arts, and architecture of Asia, the Americas, Africa, Austrailia, and the Pacific Island.

Ideal for introductory studio art courses in drawing, Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing from Observation, Fourth Edition, explains clearly and in depth the essentials of depicting form and space on a two-dimensional surface, focusing on the cultivation of observational skills, increased sensitivity, critical thinking, technical refinement, and knowledge of materials.  The text is appropriate for use in all levels of drawing classes, fro...

Effective Graphic Design follows a fixed structure throughout each project and examples to make it easier for students to learn graphic design.  Most books introduce design concepts and then illustrate them through well-done examples. The problem is that many concepts are tightly integrated in practice, making it difficult to teach a concept in a one-shot, stand-alone fashion. Effective Graphic Design is application oriented and takes the op...

Richly illustrated and interactive in its approach, How Color Works: Color Theory in the Twenty-First Century explores the contemporary aesthetics of color. Color and its many meanings are presented in culturally specific terms, encouraging students to appreciate the power that color holds over different societies. The text demonstrates that interest in color is alive and well-even in surprising corners of artistic production-and shows students o...

Themes of Contemporary Art has long been considered the best introduction to art created since 1970. This thought-provoking volume features over 200 full-color images of artworks that exemplify a wide variety of materials, techniques, theoretical viewpoints, and stylistic approaches, by artists from diverse ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds. Its concise, engaging, and accessible narrative challenges readers to think actively and critic...

Appropriate for both graphic designers and fine artists, Visual Literacy Workbook: For Graphic Design and Fine Art Students provides a detailed approach to understanding visual imagery. The text presents a wide range of fine art, graphic, and digital examples and is divided into two major parts: visual form and visual content. As students cover new material in the workbook, concepts are reinforced and synthesized, resulting in a comprehensive und...

A next-generation textbook that presents Visual Culture in the arts and sciences, Visual Worlds is designed to introduce students to visuality across all the fields that theorize it. Highlighting examples ranging from traditional “artworks” to the physics of candle flames to the visualization of neurons, it gives a full introduction to the visual world for undergraduate students. The text offers students across disciplines -- from the...

Richard Ingersoll's World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field. Each chapter within the text's chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant to their courses. The text also provides students with numerous pedagogical tools, including timelines, comp...