What’s Art? Why Is Art Important?
The Learning Outcomes provide a strong reference for the main themes introduced in each chapter. The Key Terms, however, are less developed and appear more like an after thought. The text is organized thematically, but there’s room for chronology to play a bigger role Art & Media, maybe in particular person topics/chapters or with an appendix that can trace back to image examples all through the textbook. The text covers a broad array of art actions each geographically, and temporally, although I think the non-Western selections are a bit slim.
Shamans and their practices continue in some components of the…