Art Education: A Critical NecessityRecommending that art be taught as a humanity, this volume provides a philosophical rationale for the idea of discipline-based art education. Levi and Smith discuss topics ranging over both the public and private aspects of art, the disciplines of artistic creation, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics, and curriculum proposals featuring five phases of aesthetic learning. While there is no consensus on how the various components of aesthetic learning should be presented in order to accomplish the goals of discipline-based art education, the authors point out that progress toward those goals will require that those who design art education programs bring an understanding of the four disciplines to their work. The introductory volume of a five-volume series, this book will appeal to elementary and secondary art teachers, those who prepare teachers at the college level, and museum educators. |
Contents
The Arts in the United States Today | 1 |
The Arts and the Human Person | 17 |
The Creation of Art | 36 |
The Tradition of Art Art History | 54 |
The Critique of Art Art Criticism | 87 |
The Philosophy of Art Aesthetics | 124 |
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Aesthetic Education aesthetic experience aesthetic learning American analysis appreciation architecture art criticism art history Art New York art world art's artistic creation artistic expression artworks avant-garde Beardsley Berenson Blocker century Cézanne chapter Charles Jencks classical concepts contemporary creative culture curriculum discipline discipline-based art education discussion E. H. Gombrich emotion Erwin Panofsky essay evaluation example feeling Fry's function Getty Center Giorgione Gombrich Hilton Kramer historians history of art Hospers human humanistic idea images imitation important interest interpretation Jacques Barzun Jencks John John Dewey Johns's Journal of Aesthetic Kenneth Clark Kramer landscape Levi Levi's meaning Modern Art Museum nature objects painters painting Panofsky perception percipience person philosophical philosophy of art Plato postmodern qualities R. A. Smith reality Rebecca West relevant Renaissance Roger Fry Rosenberg Roskill sense of art society style teachers theory of art thetic things tradition understanding values volume Western work's writings