Making Art: Form and Meaning

by Terry Barrett

This comprehensive introduction to art and design explores making artifacts as a process of making meaning. "Making Art: Form and Meaning" offers a framework for understanding how all the aspects of an artwork--subject matter, medium, form, process, and contexts--interact. The text's wide array of examples and its emphasis on late-modernism and postmodern art give students a thorough look at the expressive possibilities of traditional design elements and principles and contemporary practices, including the use of computer-based, time-based, and lens-based media.
With artist quotes, clearly defined key terms, and a chapter dedicated to studio critiques, "Making Art" allows students to join the conversation of contemporary art and gives them a jump start in thinking and talking about their work using the language and concepts of today's art world.

Genres: Art

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2010

About the author

Terry Berret is a Professor of Art Education, with a joint appointment in the Department of Art, at the Ohio State University, where he is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award for courses in criticism and aesthetics within education. The author of numerous works on art criticism, he is an art critic in education for the Ohio Arts Council, consults museum education departments, juries exhibitions, and conducts workshops on studio critiques and writing.