BIBLIOGRAPHY - ELEMENTS | design-fundamentals

NOTES ON VISUAL ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION

BIPPITY BOPPITY BOOKS (and LINKS and STUFF)

BOOOOOKS

Remember those ? Text and image on paper? You can touch them, run your fingers through the pages, dog-ear the corner...

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Berger, J. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking, 1972. Print.

Banham, Reyner. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 2d ed. Cambridge, MA:\MIT Press, 1981.

Collier, Graham. Form, Space and Vision. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972.

Chilvers, Ian, Harold Osborne and Dennis Farr. The Oxford Dictionary of Art. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.

Friedman, Dan. Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Glaser, Milton. Drawing is Thinking. New York: Overlook Press, 2008.

Horowitz, Frederick. More Than You See: A Guide to Art. New York: Harcourt, 1985

Kandinsky, Wassily. Point, Line, and Plane, 2nd ed. New York: Museum of Non-Objective Painting, 1947.

Kepes, Gyorgy. Language of Vision. Chicago: Paul Theobold, 1961.

Landa, Robin, Rose Gonnella and Steven Brower. 2D: Visual Basics for Designers. Cengage Learning, 2007.

Landa, Robin and Rose Gonnella. Visual Workout: A Creativity Workbook. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2004.

Lidwell, William, Kritina Holden and Jill Butler. Universal Principles of Design. Beverly, MA: Rockport, 2003.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984.

Lupton, Ellen, and Miller, Abbott. The ABCs of the Bauhaus and Design Theory from Preschool to Post-Modernism. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Rand, Paul. Design Form and Chaos. New Haven: Yale, 1993.

Rand, Paul. Thoughts on Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.

WEB ON

We know that you want videos but most of these you will need to read! Remember reading? Goes with books. For web resources on color theory, see our list from Notes on Color (Theory)

THE ELEMENTS

National Endowment for the Humanities

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/line-visual-arts#sect-preparation

The Getty

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/elements_art.pdf

Kent State University

http://www.educ.kent.edu/community/vlo/design/elements/line/index.html

Oberlin College

http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/asia/sculpture/documents/vocabulary.pdf

Math Open Reference

http://www.mathopenref.com/point.html

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_art