Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

Preface
The goals of this book
1. To provide a broad and comprehensive introduction to guiding
principals and theories of art and design.
2. To present creative approaches of doing art and design in a
reader-oriented format.
3. To provide a module of teaching and studying art and design using
recycled as well as locally available materials for students of the course.
Target category
a. Students preparing to qualify for examinations in major professional
institutions such as secondary schools, colleges of art and design in
respect to the syllabi at hand.
b. Professional students taking qualifying examinations of the Uganda
National Examinations Board.
c. Undergraduate students on degree courses in commercial art and
industrial art and design as well as fine art.
d. Post-training students on industrial training and school practice.
e. Practitioners and qualifying professional students in the areas of full
or part-time courses in interior design, fabric printing, graphic design,
sculpture, ornaments, drawing, painting, mosaics et cetera.
f. Practitioners in the art business, commercial, public and not-for profit
sectors of art and design or fine art.
Format
a. Associated groups of chapters have been assembled into sections with
each; ending with a fitting tasks for self-review.
b. Mostly, the availed sample questions address social issues of people’s
daily lives.
c. Easy to use tables have been convened in some sections for a quick
review of the most wanted subject matter.
d. The book provides a brief review of history of African art. In individual
and separate chapters.
e. Important resources are listed in references for further reading at the
back of this book.
f. Enough space has been made available on each side of facing pages
for the user to make notes.
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Use
• This book can be used as a unit or module textbook, as well as a
study text for students working on an independent or personallearning
basis.
• Also, it can be used as an instruction manual for persons actively
associated with art and design fields of study.
Comments and suggestions
The author welcomes constructive comments and suggestions from
readers, artists and institutions about the content and format of this book.
Lecturers’ supplement
A free lecturers’ supplement is available to those lecturers, teachers and
tutors adopting the book for their course text. It may be obtained by
writing on college, or institution headed paper to the author or through the
publishers.