The Questions Dictionary of Art
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2010
98 pages
978-1-4411-1640-6 (ISBN)
Description
This fully illustrated new reference guide for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 children provides comprehensive definitions of words and concepts used in the teaching of art.
Clearly worded, The Questions Dictionary of Art will shed light on what can often be a confusing vocabulary, and is fully cross-referenced. The book has been designed for both individual and group work and the layout allows teachers to photocopy the entries for mounting on to A4 card or for use in displays.
Its content has been chosen to include words within the capabilities of pupils in the primary and early secondary years of schooling. All words are relevant to the teaching and learning of art in the National Curriculum. This dictionary will make a valuable addition to any classroom's collection of basic reference books and to every school's library of books on the subject of art.
The dictionary can also be used for language teaching and the literacy hour and is also a useful tool for stimulating discussion.
Clearly worded, The Questions Dictionary of Art will shed light on what can often be a confusing vocabulary, and is fully cross-referenced. The book has been designed for both individual and group work and the layout allows teachers to photocopy the entries for mounting on to A4 card or for use in displays.
Its content has been chosen to include words within the capabilities of pupils in the primary and early secondary years of schooling. All words are relevant to the teaching and learning of art in the National Curriculum. This dictionary will make a valuable addition to any classroom's collection of basic reference books and to every school's library of books on the subject of art.
The dictionary can also be used for language teaching and the literacy hour and is also a useful tool for stimulating discussion.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-1640-6 (9781441116406)
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Rob Barnes
The Questions Dictionary of Art
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05/2002
Questions Publishing Co Ltd
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Rob Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia.
Content
- Intro
- The Questions Dictionary of Art
- Dictionary Entries
- Aboriginal art
- Abstract art
- Abstract Expressionism
- Acrylic
- Action painting
- Aquatint
- Armature
- Art Brut
- Art Deco
- Art Nouveau
- Arts and Crafts Movement
- Assemblage
- Avant-garde
- Baren
- Baroque
- Bas-relief
- Batik
- Bauhaus style
- Blue Rider
- Booktnaking
- Bronze casting
- Brushwork
- Burin
- Byzantine art
- Calligraphy
- Camera obscura
- Cartoon
- Casting
- Celtic art
- Ceramics
- Charcoal
- Chiaroscuro
- Collage
- Collograph
- Complementary colours
- Composition
- Constructivism
- Conté
- Contour
- Contraposto
- Crackle-glazing
- Crafts
- Crazing
- Cubism
- Dada
- Decoration
- Design
- Diptych
- Drawing
- Drypoint
- Edition
- Embossed
- Engraving
- Etching
- Expression
- Expressionism
- Fauvism
- Feathering
- Figurative art
- Fixative
- Folk art
- Foreground
- Foreshortening
- Form
- Found object (objet trouvé)
- Fresco
- Frottage
- Futurism
- Genre painting
- Glazing
- Golden Section
- Gouache
- Graffiti
- Graphic art
- Ground
- Half-tone
- Hatching and Cross-hatching
- Hue
- Icon
- Illumination
- Illusion
- Image
- Impasto
- Impressionism
- Incised
- Ink
- Installation
- Intaglio
- Islamic art
- Key
- Kinetic art
- Kitsch
- Land art
- Landscape
- Line
- Lino-cutting
- Lithography
- Local colour
- Maquette
- Marbling
- Mask-making
- Medium (plural: media)
- Mezzotint
- Miniature
- Minimalism
- Mobiles
- Modelling
- Modernism
- Monochrome
- Monotype
- Montage
- Mosaic
- Mural
- Naive art
- Narrative art
- Offsetting
- Oil painting
- Op art
- Origami
- Palette
- Pantograph
- Papier mâché
- Pastel
- Pastiche
- Patina
- Pattern
- Pen and wash
- Pencil
- Perspective
- Pigment
- Plaster cast
- Plate mark
- Pointillism
- Pop art
- Portraiture
- Post-Modernism
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Primary colours
- Primitive art
- Printmaking
- Proportion
- Realism
- Relief
- Relief printing
- Renaissance
- Replica
- Representation
- Rococo
- Sculpture
- Scumbling
- Secondary colours
- Self-portrait
- Sepia
- Sgraffito
- Shade
- Shape
- Silk-screen
- Sketch
- Staining
- Stencil
- Still life
- Stippling
- Stone carving
- Style
- Surrealism
- Tempera
- Terracotta
- Texture
- Tint
- Tjanting tool
- Tone
- Trompe-l'oeil
- Topographical art
- Typography
- Varnish
- Video art
- Wash
- Watercolour
- Woodcut
- Wood engraving
