Launching the Imagination

Author: Mary Stewart;
Division : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN-13: 9780073526485 (ISBN-10: 0073526487)
© 2008 | 3rd Edition | 424 pages , Softcover
Status : Active, In-Print
List Price: $120.95

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Description :
Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-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 600 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 available in a comprehensive volume treating 2D design, Creativity and Problem-solving, 3D design, and time-based (4D) design; or in split volumes containing either 2D or 3D 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.

• Provides a clearer and stronger introduction to the principles of two-dimensional design by splitting Chapter 3 into two chapters; Chapter 3, Principles of Two-Dimensional Design, describes the essentials in detail, while the new Chapter 4 provides a lively discussion of spatial systems and ways to create the illusion of motion.
  
• Includes new coverage on the habits of work characteristic of successful artists and designers and the importance of personal responsibility and self-motivation in Chapter 5; collaborative creativity?a pivotal skill for contemporary designers in Chapter 6; and the characteristics of Postmodernism, including appropriation, re-contextualization, layering, complexity and hybridization in Chapter 8
  
• Provides insights from professional artists on life choices, careers, and other topics of interest through "Profiles," a series of 14 interviews with working artists discussing their lives and careers, which has been updated to include: Sculptor Sam Yates, Painter Roger Shimomura, Metalsmith Marilyn da Silva, and Composer and Opera librettist Michael Remson.
  
• A new feature, ?In Detail?, focuses on a single image discussed in a chapter and examines the technique more closely.
  
• Expands Online Learning Center to include the material formerly on the Core Concepts CD in MyArtStudio plus features chapter objectives, overview and related readings, flashcards, Internet exercises, key terms and student quizzing.
  
• Enhances the focus on contemporary art and artists throughout with 40 new works by artists and designers including Louise Bourgeois, Ruth Asawa, Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol, Robert Stackhouse, Anish Kapoor, Ann Strassman, Barbara Kruger, and Krzysztol Wodiczko.
  
• Offers updated instructor materials on the instructor Online Learning Center with advice on course construction, critique skills, and technical resources, along with over thirty assignments. Divided into sections on Two Dimensional Design, Three Dimensional Design, Four Dimensional Design, Color, Creativity, and Computer Applications, this site provides the basic information which beginning teachers can use to build a course.
  
• Includes selected images from the illustration program in digital format in The Image Vault, McGraw-Hill's web-based presentation manager for classroom use. Instructors can incorporate images from The Image Vault in digital presentations that can be used in class (no internet access required), burned to CD-ROM, or embedded in course Web pages. See www.mhhe.com/theimagevault for more details.
  

• The text features unique chapters on problem-solving (Chapter 6), critical thinking (Chapter 7), and cultivating creativity (Chapter 5), designed to provide practical assistance to students in tackling design problems
  
• A distinctive Part Four, on 4D or time-based design, highlights this area of growing interest, with examples from film, installation, and computer art.
  
• "Key Questions" appear throughout the text (immediately following the relevant topics), probing students on key concepts and helping to reinforce and apply the material.
  
• Provides a lively and concise introduction to the theory and practice of visual communication Chapter 8, "Constructing Meaning."
  
• Presents a practical discussion of the materials available for 3-D design, along with rationales for selecting appropriate materials for a specific work in Chapter 11, "Materials and Methods."
  
• More than 80% of Launching the Imagination's 600 illustrations are presented in full color.
  
• Launching the Imagination is available in a comprehensive volume treating 2D design, Creativity and Problem-solving, 3D design, and time-based (4D) design; or in split volumes containing either 2D or 3D design, plus the material on Creativity and Problem-solving.
  

About the Author:

Mary Stewart
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.