Revel for Prebles' Artforms - Access Card

Patrick Frank has taught in many higher education environments, from rural community colleges to private research universities. His recent scholarly work has focused on Latin American graphic arts. He is author of Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery 1890 - 1910 and Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers' Culture in Buenos Aires (University of New Mexico Press). He has curated five exhibitions of Latin American prints. He has also edited a volume of artists' writings, Readings in Latin American Modern Art (Yale University Press). He served as collaborating author for the modern section of Marilyn Stokstad's Art History (third edition). He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and is currently teaching the History of Modern Latin American Art at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. He lives in the seaside community of Venice.

PART I: THE LANGUAGE OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE 1. The Nature of Art and Creativity 2. The Purposes and Functions of Art 3. The Visual Elements PART II: THE MEDIA OF ART 4. The Principles of Design 5. Evaluating Art 6. Drawing 7. Painting 8. Printmaking 9. Photography 10. Moving Images: Film and Digital Arts 11. Design Disciplines 12. Sculpture 13. Craft Media: Flirting with Function 14. Architecture PART III: ART AS CULTURAL HERITAGE 15. From The Earliest Art to the Bronze Age 16. The Classical and Medieval West 17. Renaissance and Baroque Europe 18. Traditional Arts of Asia 19. The Islamic World 20. Africa, Oceania, and the Americas PART IV: THE MODERN WORLD 21. Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 22. Early Twentieth Century 23. Between World Wars 24. Postwar Modern Movements PART V: THE POSTMODERN WORLD 25. Postmodernity and Global Art