Art: The Way It Is.

Examines The Use Of The Fundamental Elements Of Art By Various Artists In Different Time Periods And Discusses The Characteristics Of Distinctive Styles, Including Cartoon Drawings As Well As Paintings And Sculpture. Preface And Acknowledgments -- Who?s Putting On Whom? -- What Is Art? -- The Incompetent Artist Theory Of Style In Art -- Image Creation And Convention -- Religious Belief And Artistic Convention -- Economics And Artistic Convention -- Social Convention And Artistic Convention -- Line And Form -- The Shapes Of Venus -- Line, Form, And Feeling -- Light And Shade -- Chiaroscuro And Modeling -- The Meaning Of Light And Dark -- Color -- Hue -- Value -- Intensity -- Fugitive Sensations -- Pigments -- Historic Combinations And Consequences -- Emotional Effects Of Color -- Space -- Geometric Projections -- Scientific Perspective -- Space In French Impressionism -- Cezanne?s Perspective Of Color -- The Uncanny Space Of Cubism -- Formal Composition -- Content -- The Interdependence Of Form And Content -- Formal ?rightness? And Families Of Forms And Colors -- Some Comparisons And Contrasts -- Styles Of Vision -- Wolfflin?s Theory Of Style And ?instant? Connoisseurship -- Individual Styles Within A Style Of Vision -- The Dilemma Of Modern Styles -- Modern Art, Its Variety And Unities -- Neoclassicism -- Romanticism -- Realism And Impressionism -- The Rationalist-formalist Current -- Some Synthetic Styles -- Media And Methods -- Some Media In Two Dimensions -- Painting Media -- Printmaking -- Photomechanical Reproduction -- Some Media In Three Dimensions -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Notes To The Text -- Glossary -- Guide To The Pronunciations Of Artists? Name -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits. John Adkins Richardson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [334]-[339]) And Index.