Art History Inquiry Methods: Three Options for Art Education Practice

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The field of art education has progressively moved towards a more inquiry-based approach to teaching, learning, and thinking about art Each discipline connected with the study of the visual arts-production, criticism, aesthetics, and history of art-offers different modes of inquiry. The history of art, in particular, provides a number of diverse modes of inquiry that enable historians to question traditional assumptions and mind sets, and open understandings to new issues and problems. These same modes of inquiry can offer art educators new ways of thinking about, looking at, and analyzing pictorial phenomena.

Art historical modes of inquiry have not remained the same over time. …