Peter Smith

The History of American Art Education (eBook, PDF)

Learning About Art in American Schools

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The ideas, people, and events that developed art education are described and analyzed so that art educators and educators in general will have a better understanding of what has happened (and is happening) to visual art in the schools. Peter Smith raises the issue of art education's inordinate emphasis on Eurocentric art. He challenges the often expressed notion that the field of education is the cause of art education's problems and proposes that confused conceptions within the art world are just as much a root of the difficulty. No other book in art education history gives such close and analytical attention to the careers of women in the field. The materials on Germanic cultural and historical influences are unequaled as is the scholarly treatment of Viktor Lowenfeld, probably the most influential single figure in 20th-century American art education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313031724
• Artikelnr.: 54129689

Autorenporträt

PETER SMITH is Coordinator of Art Education/Art Therapy at the University of New Mexico. He has exhibited his art work in many parts of the United States and is a familiar name in art education journal literature with more than thirty major articles. His 25 year background in public school teaching serves him well as a spokesman of institutional art education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in America The
Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art
Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth Century Germanic
Influences Franz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical Knowledge American
Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture Study American Women in Visual Arts
Education: Outstanding Leaders and the Interaction Between Gender Bias and
Art's Status A Charismatic American Gender and the History of Art
Education: Survival and Disappearance Of Women and Art Education: Roles of
Importance A Colossus of Sorts The Post Lowenfeld Era: Radical Dissent and
Thoughtful Revisionism From Aesthetic Education to Discipline-based Art
Education: Intellectualizations and Confusions References Index