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.
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PETER SMITH is Coordinator of Art Education/Art Therapy at the University of New Mexico.
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The book is very interesting and will be a help for teaching my class. I think the cost is too much for a soft cover small book.
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Smith has written an extremely detailed history that delves into important events and players of american art education. I titled this review "Exhausting", however, because the book it quite simply a chore to read. Chapter headings and even sub chapter headings are of little help as Smith takes long detours to arrive at his points. For example he begins to examine the ideas of key figures such as Victor Lowenfeld, but then goes on a spree examining with unnecessary detail the background and culture of those whose ideas had influenced Lowenfeld's ideas. The reading stops being informative and instead becomes highly tedious.
There's a good history to be found in here...you've just got to swim through a lot of muck.
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The History of American Art Education, World War, Juvenile Class, Walter Smith, New York, Franz Cizek, Teachers College, Belle Boas, The Post-Lowenfeld Era, Arthur Wesley Dow, Natalie Robinson Cole, African American, Colossus of Sorts, The Nature of Creative Activity, Columbia University, Eugenia Eckford Rhoads, Jane Betsey Welling, Los Angeles, Viktor Lowenfeld, Charismatic American, Pennsylvania State University, Professor Cizek, Ohio State University, Alice Robinson, John Dewey New!
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- Creative and Mental Growth (8th Edition) by Viktor Lowenfeld on 11 pages
- Nature Of Creative Activity, The by Viktor Lowenfeld on 11 pages
- Educating Artistic Vision by Elliot W. Eisner on page 89, page 123, and page 212
- Art as Experience by John Dewey on page 126, and page 194
- Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (v. 6) by E.H. Gombrich on page 37, and page 69
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- Celestin Freinet: (Contributions to the Study of Education) by Victor Acker in Back Matter
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