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Art criticism and education / Theodore F. Wolff and George Geahigan.

Title
Art criticism and education / Theodore F. Wolff and George Geahigan.
Author
Wolff, Theodore F.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors
Geahigan, George
Description
xxiv, 283 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
In this concluding volume of the series Disciplines in Art Education, an author-art critic and an art educator discuss the place of art criticism in the classroom. Noted art critic Theodore Wolff provides a practical overview of how those who teach art can apply the principles and techniques of art criticism from kindergarten through high school. Connecting the practical to the pedagogical, George Geahigan provides a historical overview of art criticism in education literature. He rejects prevailing approaches that treat the discipline as a procedure for talking or writing about works of art, asserting instead that criticism is best construed as a mode of inquiry concerned with helping individuals see meaning and value in works of art. -- from back cover.
Series Statement
Disciplines in art education
Uniform Title
Disciplines in art education
Subject
Art criticism
Genre/Form
  • Art criticism
  • Critiques d'art.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Art criticism and its uses. Art and art criticism -- Types of art criticism -- The values and work of an art critic -- Art criticism and art critics in the classroom -- The lessons of art criticism -- Exercising critical judgment -- Art criticism : from theory to practice. Art criticism and art education -- The pursuit of meaning : proximate goals of critical inquiry -- Initiating critical inquiry : personal response to works of art -- Teaching personal response to works of art -- Extending the framework for response : concept and skill instruction and student research -- Planning curricula in art criticism.
ISBN
  • 0252066146 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0252023145 (cloth : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^96035655^
OCLC
  • 35397771
  • SCSB-12712197
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library