Contributors to this anthology analyze the contemporary academic methods for critiquing art and suggest new ways that might further our understandings of art created by myriad individuals and groups. The essays give readers further insight into a diverse range of artistic creators often overlooked in art world studies.
Contributors to this anthology analyze the contemporary academic methods for critiquing art and suggest new ways that might further our understandings...
Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a healer and painter, even decades after his death. In Happy Clouds, Happy Trees, the authors thoughtfully explore how the Bob Ross phenomenon grew into a juggernaut.
Although his sincerity in embracing democracy, gift economies, conservation, and self-help may have left him previously denigrated as a subject of rigorous scholarship,...
Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored...
Through activities, approaches, and examples, this resource highlights concrete strategies for incorporating material culture into K-16 art classrooms, as well as museum and community settings. Chapters are written by luminaries in the field and organised around various aspects of material culture, including object study, the role of technology, and multisensory art.
Through activities, approaches, and examples, this resource highlights concrete strategies for incorporating material culture into K-16 art classrooms...
