# Introduction to Art - Design, Context, and Meaning

- By: Sachant et al.
- Publisher: University System of Georgia
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/Art_Introduction_and_Fundamentals/Introduction_to_Art%3A_Design_Context_and_Meaning_(Sachant_et_al.))
- Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/Art_Introduction_and_Fundamentals/Introduction_to_Art%3A_Design_Context_and_Meaning_(Sachant_et_al.)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-10106/pdf

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses. Combining the best elements of both a traditional textbook and a reader, it introduces such issues in art as its meaning and purpose; its meaning and purpose; its structure, material, an