"The Art of Seeing," now in its fifth edition, is an Art Appreciation textbook written from an artist's point of view. Written in highly accessible language for the non-major, it includes:

• stimulating images and an extremely user-friendly text.
• images by women and men across cultures, presented in an integrated manner.
• artists on the cutting edge of the contemporary art scene.

• Three brand-new "Art Issues" boxes on Mixing Art and Politics: the Films of Leni Riefenstahl, Protecting Famous Art Works, and The Limits of the Restorer's Art.
• Twelve new features entitled "The World Seen"-the contextual approach applied to a wide variety of highly developed non Western art forms such as Islamic calligraphy, Chinese landscape paintings, and Persian carpets.
• New sections on Modernism, Minimalism, Postmodernism, and the Light and Space movement.
• The new technologies have been specially updated: photography, video, film and computer graphics, as well as the revolutionary impact of the Internet.

• A new section, "Contemporary Perspectives on Art Criticism" in Chapter 1, discussing feminist, psychoanalytical, and historical models, among others.
• More on Performance Art in Chapter 15.
• Full discursive captions for key works of art, relating artists' formal means of expression to underlying content or symbolism.
• Expanded treatment of Art in Time" (part 4).