Hirsh, Sharon L.  1948- <br/><br/>
How to look at and understand great art / 
Sharon L. Hirsh. 
 - Chantilly, Virginia :  The Teaching Company,  2011. 
 - 6 videodiscs :   sound, color ;  4 3/4 in. +   1 course guidebook (vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)  
 - Great courses (DVD).    Fine Arts & Music .
 - The Great courses .
 - The Great Courses .
<br/><br/> Course No. 7640.<br/>May accompany video recordings with same title  "Topic: Fine Arts & Music; Subtopic: Visual arts 
<br/><br/>Disc 1: The importance of first Impressions -- Where am I? point of view and focal point -- Color: description, symbol and more -- Line: description and expression -- Space, shape, shade, and shadow -- Seeing the big picture: composition -- Disc 2: The illusion: getting the right perspective -- Art that moves us: time and motion -- Feeling with our eyes: texture and light -- Drawing: dry, liquid, and modern media -- Printmaking: relief and intaglio -- Modern printmaking: planographic -- disc 3: Sculpture: salt cellars to monuments -- Development of painting: tempera and oils -- Modern painting: acrylics and assemblages -- Subject matters -- Signs: symbols, icons, and indexes in art -- Portraits: how artists see others -- disc 4: Self-portraits: how artists see themselves -- Landscapes: art of the great outdoors -- Putting it all together -- Early Renaissance: humanism emergent -- Northern Renaissance: devil in the details -- High Renaissance: humanism perfected -- disc 5: Mannerism and Baroque: distortion and drama -- Going Baroque: north versus south -- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo -- Revolutions: neoclassicism and romanticism -- From Realism to Impressionism -- Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed -- disc 6: Expressionism: empathy and emotion -- Cubism: an experiment in form -- Abstraction/Modernism: new visual language -- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams -- Postmodernism: focus on the viewer -- Your next museum visit: do it yourself.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781598037357 1598037358 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education. <br/>Teaching.<br/>Educación<br/>Enseñanza<br/>Historia del arte--Estudio y enseñanza <br/>Artes --Historia.<br/>Apreciación del arte
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 14.6  / H669h 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370