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The History of American Art Education: Learning about Art in American Schools
By Peter Smith
272 pages
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- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
- Publication year:
- 1996
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Synopsis
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 ...
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.
Table of contents
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- Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Education ii
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Note 10
- 1 - The Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in America 11
- Note 23
- 2 - The Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth Century 25
- Notes 42
- 3 - Germanic Influences 45
- Notes 57
- 4 - Franz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical Knowledge 59
- Notes 78
- 5 - American Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture Study 79
- Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Education ii
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Note 10
- 1 - The Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in America 11
- Note 23
- 2 - The Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth Century 25
- Notes 42
- 3 - Germanic Influences 45
- Notes 57
- 4 - Franz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical Knowledge 59
- Notes 78
- 5 - American Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture Study 79
- Notes 90
- 6 - American Women in Visual Arts Education: Outstanding Leaders and the Interaction between Gender Bias and Art's Status 91
- Notes 102
- 7 - A Charismatic American 103
- Notes 121
- 8 - Gender and the History of Visual Arts Education: Survival and Disappearance 123
- Epilogue 135
- Notes 137
- 9 - Of Women and Art Education: Roles of Importance 139
- Notes 149
- 10 - A Colossus of Sorts 151
- 11 - The Post-Lowenfeld Era: Radical Dissent, and Thoughtful Revisionism 177
- Notes 203
- 12 - From Aesthetic Education to Discipline- Based Art Education: Intellectualizations and Confusions 205
- Note 218
- References 219
- Index 239
- About the Author 253