Perceiving the Arts: An Introduction to the Humanities
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Book Overview
"Provides an introductory, straight-forward, and response-oriented overview of the arts ""Perceiving the Arts "presents the basic formal, technical, experiential, and contextual qualities of the arts... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0136045693
ISBN13:9780136045694
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Prentice Hall
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.02 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.9" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
bought it for humanities
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
happy with the purchase for a few reasons. #1- It got me trough my mid-term #2- It was cheap (being an art student is expensive!)and #3- It was the book I actually needed! (had that problem with another seller) All in all, I was very happy with the book. It was in better condition than i expected and it got here pretty fast.
Good resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I had to purchase this book for my Arts & Humanities requirement at WGU. I have enjoyed the user friendliness of the book. I have a greater knowledge of Art History, but next to nothing about composers etc, I have found this book to be a wonderful introduction into the world of the Arts, and look forward to finding ways to utilize what I've learned in the classroom!
Great Replacement for our old book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I managed to have this book added as an alternate after fighting for years to avoid teaching another text, Humanities Through the Arts. That text had a very bad habit of talking in circles and I spent more time trying to explain the book than I did teaching the course. Our students normally have little to no exposure to the Arts and are easily discouraged. Not only is this little book half the price of the other but it is very straight forward in its approach. If you want a book that offers lots of chapters for testing purposes this isn't it. If you do a lot of group work and use projects and your own examples to teach, this text nails down the basics..
Pretty good book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I have taught a course on the Humanities using this book, and found it mostly spot on in its specific contents. How to present all of the Humanities using one paperback? But - with just a few exceptions - this presents a good first look and useful rules of thumb in approaching the various disciplines. In areas that are underserved, such as Landscape Art, it actually fills a void. I recommend it and will use it again.
Informative
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I used this book for my introduction to fine arts class and thought it was very good. Easy to understand and follow, and gave good information straight out without haveing to search for defintions or other stuff.
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