Websites:
www.beckyhendrick.com (art, paintings, installations; active sight)
www.beckyhendrickwriting.com (reviews, essays, books; active sight)
www.beckyhendrickartlife.ipage.com (art and writing and professional overview; inactive)
www.beckyhendrick.com (art, paintings, installations; active sight)
www.beckyhendrickwriting.com (reviews, essays, books; active sight)
www.beckyhendrickartlife.ipage.com (art and writing and professional overview; inactive)
INTRODUCTION
copyright 2014 by Becky Hendrick
From 1990 until 2013, I taught college classes in Art Appreciation and in "Whole Arts," a holistic approach to creative learning and teaching (designed for education majors) incorporating visual art, dance, music and theater. In 1999 I self-published Getting It: A Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art; this valuable little text was subsequently published by Houghton-Mifflin Company in 2001. When Houghton-Mifflin gave up its textbook company, I re-acquired the book's copyright and made Getting It available in its original form (though with a different format, unfortunately: glossy and without a spiral binding). It is available as an ebook through Lulu.com; the paperback version, though lovely, is --- to me, and beyond my control --- prohibitively expensive, but the ebook is only a few dollars. Yes, the book need updating since, in the digital world, what qualifies as Art continues to evolve, but I will leave this edition "as is," because it takes care of a large subject in very few pages.