Visual Arts

The Fine Arts: the technique and principles of visual art

The Arts and Their Interrelations

"The Arts and Their Interrelations" is the first book of its kind. It did much to stimulate the present educational trend toward comparative surveys of the arts. This enlarged edition opens the way to further progress in the understanding of the arts from a standpoint of content, form, and function. Most book on the arts today are highly specialized, focusing on one art form, artist, style, or collection. By contrast, "The Arts and Their Interrelations" deals with all the arts: the visual arts, literature, music, theater, film, and industrial arts. Dr. Munro offers a theoretical explanation of these arts which is applicable to works of any place and period. The nature of each major art form of today is outlined, and comparisons are made with earlier art forms with respect to media and psychological materials, to forms, techniques, and processes employed, and to functions served in society. A concise historical sketch of the changing concepts of art and systems of classification since the time of Plato is also presented. -- From publisher's description

The nature of the fine arts