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Acknowledgements. <p>List of Illustrations.</p> <p>Preface.</p> <p>1. Public Opinion/Public Art.</p> <p>2. Non-Western Ideas.</p> <p>3. Western Ideas.</p> <p>4. Beauty.</p> <p>5. Expression & Aesthetic Experience.</p> <p>6. Art & Ethics.</p> <p>7. Political Art, Censorship & Pornography.</p> <p>8. Art & Economics.</p> <p>9. Feminist Art, Aesthetics & Art Criticism.</p> <p>10. Postmodern Art & Attitudes.</p> <p>11. Photography & New Media.</p> <p>12. (Re)Discovering Design.</p> <p>13. Art & Aesthetic Education.</p> <p>14. Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums & Viewers.</p> <p>References.</p> <p>Index.</p>

<p>"This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal." (<i>SchoolArts</i>, 1 May 2014)</p> <p>"This book provides many refreshingly-new ideas about art from many people and areas of the world, as well as open-ended, non-dogmatic discussions on many topics." (<i>Biz India</i>, 10 December 2012)</p> <p>"This text offers art-interested students and general readers a sampling of ideas on a wide range of topics, in an accessible, non-intimidating manner." (<i>Book News</i>, 1 August 2011)</p> <p>"This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal stories." (<i>School Arts</i>, 1 May 2014)</p>

<p><b>KATHLEEN K. DESMOND </b>is Professor of Art & Design and Byler Distinguished Faculty at the University of Central Missouri. An award-winning teacher and scholar, Desmond teaches art appreciation, aesthetics, art criticism, and art theory. Her articles about contemporary art and artists and college art learning are published in<i> Art Journal, Art Education, Aesthetics On-line, Review, Dialogue, and New Art Examiner.</i> Past Chair of the College Art Association's Education Committee, Desmond conducted conference sessions that yielded data supporting this text.

<p><i>"Ideas About Art</i> provides enough information to establish a foundation for discussion, thankfully with utter lack of intellectual posturing or jargon, and spurs further research. It is readable and culturally balanced; conversational even in the most intellectually challenging passages."<br> <b>Michele Fricke</b>, <i>Professor of Art History, Kansas City Art Institute</i> <p>"There is nothing quite like this text in the ???eld. I especially appreciate that it is not formulaic like some other texts and that readers can hang their own choices of artists off of these ideas."<br> <b>Elizabeth Garber</b>, <i>Professor of Art, University of Arizona</i> <p><i>Ideas About Art</i> is intended for art-interested students who want to expand the scope of their knowledge beyond Western art and aesthetics. The volume is comprised of short chapters that offer concrete stories, real-life experiences, and contemporary aesthetic dilemmas that enable readers to explore a range of non-Western aesthetics - beauty and expression, ethics, economics, political art, censorship, feminism, postmodernism, and discipline-speci???c theories in photography, design, and aesthetic education.

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