Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Study & Teaching

How are the arts important in young people s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard.

Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia, Anna Hickey-Moody shows the cultural significance of the kinds of learning that occur in and through arts. Drawing on the thought of Gilles Deleuze, she develops the theory of affective pedagogy, which explains the process of learning that happens through aesthetics.

The magic of poetry moves us in unique ways. "Breath of Poetry "presents a unique collection of poetry meant to stir emotions while exercising thought processes to enhance our understanding of the world around us. Poetry enables us to capture the beauty in the world by creating beautiful and thoughtful images through the use of poetic phrasing.

"Breath of Poetry" seeks to encourage new thought patterns, helping others to view literature differently by adding a new twist to the art of word making. It explores various concepts in quest of revealing truth and understanding and providing a...

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another's work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and "unpredictable conversation" on knotty and provocative issues about art. This third volume in the series, What Do Artists Know?, is about the education of artists. The MFA degree is notoriously poorly conceptualized, and now it is giving way to the PhD in art practice. Meanwhile, conversations on freshman courses in...

Max Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those discoveries in turn overthrew the theories of Loehr's great rival Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), a Swedish sinologue whose apparently scientific use of classification and statistics had long dominated Western studies of the bronzes.

Revisiting a controversy that was ended by archaeology before the issues at stake were fully understood,...

This authoritative, practical, and comprehensive guide offers everything teachers need to know to conduct an effective arts instruction and appreciation program. It meets secondary art teacher's unique needs for creating art lessons that cover everything from the fundamentals to digital media careers for aspiring artists. The book includes ten chapters that provide detailed instructions for both teachers and students, along with creative lesson plans and practical tools such as reproducible...

Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? And, if so, should we care?

In "Writing Art History," Margaret Iversen and Stephen Melville address these questions by exploring some assumptions at the discipline s foundation. Their project is to excavate the lost continuities between philosophical aesthetics, contemporary theory, and art history through close...