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Product Description
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Third Edition, is the Thames & Hudson hardcover textbook by Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, and M. Kathryn Shields used in college art appreciation and introductory art history courses.
Gateways to Art is organized so that students can enter the subject from any direction: the fundamentals of form, the media and processes artists use, art history across cultures, and the themes art addresses. The recurring gateway artworks are revisited across chapters, so a student sees the same piece through several lenses. The third edition supports active learning with discussion questions, project ideas, and interactive tools.
What's included
- Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Third Edition, hardcover
- Four parts: fundamentals, media and processes, history and context, and themes
- Discussion questions and project ideas in each chapter
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson
- ISBN-13: 9780500841334
Who it's for
Students in art appreciation, introduction to art, and survey art history courses, often as a general education requirement; studio art majors who need a broad grounding; and readers who want a well-illustrated, plainly written tour of how art works. Instructors like that the book covers global art rather than a Western-only survey.
Why this edition
The third edition strengthened the book’s case for why art matters in contemporary life and added tools for classroom discussion. The hardcover binding holds up through a semester of heavy use and resale. As with any course text, match the ISBN above to your syllabus, since the third edition’s chapter structure and gateway works differ from earlier editions.
Frequently asked questions
Who wrote Gateways to Art?
Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, and M. Kathryn Shields. It is published by Thames & Hudson.
Is Gateways to Art an art history book?
It is an art appreciation text that includes an art history section, so it covers both how to look at art and how art developed across cultures.
Is this the hardcover edition?
Yes. This is the third edition in hardcover, ISBN 9780500841334.
Details
| Title | Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts |
|---|---|
| Edition | Third Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
| ISBN-13 | 9780500841334 |
| Condition | New |
