The history of American art education learning about art in American schools
Title:
The history of American art education learning about art in American schools
Author:
Smith, Peter, 1935 May 7-
ISBN:
9780313031724
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 252 p.)
Series:
Contributions to the study of education, no. 67
Contributions to the study of education ; no. 67.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in America; 2. The Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth Century; 3. Germanic Influences; 4. Franz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical Knowledge; 5. American Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture Study; 6. American Women in Visual Arts Education: Outstanding Leaders and the Interaction Between Gender Bias and Art's Status; 7. A Charismatic American.
Abstract:
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 ana.
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