What is Art?: An Introduction to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

By John Edwin Canaday

Examines the painter's techniques, elements of composition, the artist as visionary and social critic, and the nature of painting, sculpture, architecture, realism, expressionism, and abstraction This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007554329X
• ISBN13: 9780075543299
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Canaday's Book is One of the Best in the Field

This was the text that a gifted professor on mine used for his Art Theory classes as a pre-requisite to Art History in the early 1980's. If you want an overload to understanding the essence of fine art, this is the book. Read it again and again; even decades later it yields more. I rate it as a classic in its field. A must-have if you want to study art in any genre, particularly in painting.