Launching the Imagination offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Profiles with interviews of artists and designers introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteria for excellence from a remarkable group of masters.

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Provides insights from professional artists on life choices, careers, and other topics of interest through "Profiles," a series of interviews with working artists discussing their lives and careers.

Enhances its focus on contemporary art and artists throughout with new works by artists and designers including Louise Bourgeois, Ruth Asawa, Anish Kapoor, Barbara Kruger, and Krzysztol Wodiczko.

A distinctive Part Four, on 4D or time-based design, highlights this area of growing interest, with examples from film, installation, and computer art.