Artspeak
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Copyright: 2019
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Artspeak is a text that explores visual art and architecture as one of the earliest human languages. Artspeak offers strategies to translate and interpret this language. Art and architecture form a visual imprint of human experience that creates a catalog of human history. Artspeak includes updated theories by contemporary thinkers of varying disciplines like evolutionary psychologists and biological engineers that deepen our understanding of monuments like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids. In this way, Artspeak presents art and architecture as expressions of human evolution and invites readers to advance the discourse with a strategy of analysis and interpretation developed throughout the text.
Introduction: Aesthetics: What is Art?
Part One: Art and Immortality
Chapter One: Prehistoric Art: Who Are We?
Death
Fertility
Stonehenge: Death and Fertility
Chapter Two: Heaven and Earth
A New Worldview
Meeting Places
Power and Religion
Alchemy
Bosch
Part Two: Art and Renaissances
Chapter Three: Cultural Convergences
Urbanization
Globalization
Colonization
Chapter Four: The Classical Aesthetic: Power
War
Beauty as Civic Ethic
Craftsmanship as Competition
The Arcadian State of America
Part Three: Art to Present
Chapter Five: Prestige: Art as Commodity in the Modern Age
The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
The Impact of Photography
The Impact of Science
The Impact of Art Institutions
Chapter Six: Paradise
Social Practice
Civic Art
Wabi Sabi
Eco-Art
Andrea Ciaston lived in New York City for ten years, completing her art education. She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in Drawing and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. She then earned her Doctorate in Studio Practice from New York University. In the 1990’s she moved to the Pacific Northwest and lived in wilderness areas near Mt. Shasta, California and Mt. Ashland, Oregon for over a decade. She has taught studio art and art history at colleges and universities both on the east and west coasts. She is the recipient of the Faculty Recognition Award at Lane Community College in 2013 and the John and Suanne Roueche/League of Innovation Award for Excellence in Teaching and Leadership in Community Colleges in 2015. She currently lives, teaches, and continues her studio practice in Eugene, Oregon.
Artspeak is a refreshing introduction into the reading and understandings of the visual arts, in that, as stated in its introductory sentence, "Art tells the story of those who make it." A visual strategy of Artspeak takes the reader from the art work back to the artist or artists who created it. It is there that the cultural, spiritual, economic or scientific influences are fleshed out all depending on which applies to its creation and its particular milieu. The text applies this method to a wide range of samples from the earthworks of Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids to stunning works of James Turrel's architecturally formed "Skyscape". Artspeak touches down on a wide range of the visual arts on a global scale from the political world of ancient Greece and its molding of an ideal form to the black and white silhouetted shapes of a Kara Walker's exposure of the historical and contemporary political reality in America for a person of color. There is a richness to Artspeak's approach to understanding a work of art, an insightful visual strategy applied.
Robert DeVine
Artist and Art Studio Professor
Artspeak is a text that explores visual art and architecture as one of the earliest human languages. Artspeak offers strategies to translate and interpret this language. Art and architecture form a visual imprint of human experience that creates a catalog of human history. Artspeak includes updated theories by contemporary thinkers of varying disciplines like evolutionary psychologists and biological engineers that deepen our understanding of monuments like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids. In this way, Artspeak presents art and architecture as expressions of human evolution and invites readers to advance the discourse with a strategy of analysis and interpretation developed throughout the text.
Introduction: Aesthetics: What is Art?
Part One: Art and Immortality
Chapter One: Prehistoric Art: Who Are We?
Death
Fertility
Stonehenge: Death and Fertility
Chapter Two: Heaven and Earth
A New Worldview
Meeting Places
Power and Religion
Alchemy
Bosch
Part Two: Art and Renaissances
Chapter Three: Cultural Convergences
Urbanization
Globalization
Colonization
Chapter Four: The Classical Aesthetic: Power
War
Beauty as Civic Ethic
Craftsmanship as Competition
The Arcadian State of America
Part Three: Art to Present
Chapter Five: Prestige: Art as Commodity in the Modern Age
The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
The Impact of Photography
The Impact of Science
The Impact of Art Institutions
Chapter Six: Paradise
Social Practice
Civic Art
Wabi Sabi
Eco-Art
Andrea Ciaston lived in New York City for ten years, completing her art education. She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in Drawing and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. She then earned her Doctorate in Studio Practice from New York University. In the 1990’s she moved to the Pacific Northwest and lived in wilderness areas near Mt. Shasta, California and Mt. Ashland, Oregon for over a decade. She has taught studio art and art history at colleges and universities both on the east and west coasts. She is the recipient of the Faculty Recognition Award at Lane Community College in 2013 and the John and Suanne Roueche/League of Innovation Award for Excellence in Teaching and Leadership in Community Colleges in 2015. She currently lives, teaches, and continues her studio practice in Eugene, Oregon.
Artspeak is a refreshing introduction into the reading and understandings of the visual arts, in that, as stated in its introductory sentence, "Art tells the story of those who make it." A visual strategy of Artspeak takes the reader from the art work back to the artist or artists who created it. It is there that the cultural, spiritual, economic or scientific influences are fleshed out all depending on which applies to its creation and its particular milieu. The text applies this method to a wide range of samples from the earthworks of Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids to stunning works of James Turrel's architecturally formed "Skyscape". Artspeak touches down on a wide range of the visual arts on a global scale from the political world of ancient Greece and its molding of an ideal form to the black and white silhouetted shapes of a Kara Walker's exposure of the historical and contemporary political reality in America for a person of color. There is a richness to Artspeak's approach to understanding a work of art, an insightful visual strategy applied.
Robert DeVine
Artist and Art Studio Professor