Launching the Imagination 3D [Paperback]

Mary Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 2007 | ISBN-10: 007332731X | ISBN-13: 978-0073327310 | Edition: 3

Designed for courses in Creativity and Three-Dimensional Design, Launching the Imagination offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 375 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, known as Profiles, introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteria for excellence from a remarkable group of masters.

Launching the Imagination is also available in a comprehensive volume treating 2D design, Creativity and Problem-solving, 3D design, and time-based (4D) design; or in a split volume containing 2D design plus the material on Creativity and Problem-solving.

This edition of Launching the Imagination moves the content of the Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center. With free access, this website, which engages students interactively with the elements and principles of art through numerous interactive exercises, has been re-organized and expanded.

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About the Author

Author, artist, and educator Mary Stewart is the Foundations Program Director for the Art Department at Florida State University and co-founder of Integrative Teaching Thinktank, a national organization devoted to strengthening college-level teaching. She regularly gives workshops and lectures on creativity, curriculum design, visual communication, leadership and visual narrative. Her artwork has been shown in over eighty exhibitions nationally and internationally, and she has received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants for choreography. She received the FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) Master Educator award and the National Council of Arts Administrators Award of Distinction in 2009.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 3 edition (November 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007332731X
• ISBN-13: 978-0073327310
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #191,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars young artists get exposure, May 23, 2011

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Todd Slaughter - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Launching the Imagination: A Guide to Three-Dimensional Design (Paperback)

This is an inspiring and analytical guide book, but anyone looking for an art recipe book will be disappointed. If there is anything young artists want, need, and yet often lack, is exposure to a broad range of artworks. This book offers a great beginning to this journey of understanding art/design with cover to cover juxtapositions of cartoons and cubism, Monet and Sam Francis, and sculpture and furniture design.

I am also strongly in favor of Stewart's basic philosophy of pointing out the ideas and visual strategies behind the making of an artwork. This is a great companion to a studio course of beginning design and sculpture.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty pictures, not much else., May 10, 2011

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This review is from: Launching the Imagination 3D (Paperback)

There's information about pieces and pretty pictures but that's really it. I would not recommend this to teachers for courses, all of us hated it and the information that you think we're learning from it, we're not....