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Art Education And The Promotion Of Intercultural Understanding, F. Graeme Chalmers
Art Education And The Promotion Of Intercultural Understanding, F. Graeme Chalmers
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
The comparative study of art, of response to art, and the production of art forms which matter can help us to understand each other. Art has always been a powerful force in shaping our vision of the world. We need to understand each other's vision and keep our own alive. We need to combat any art-for-art's-sake attitudes that may be entrenched in schools because it is a rather peculiar notion of art and one that deters a full understanding of the role of art in a variety of contexts and cultures. In contrast, art educators who view art as a …
Collecting Women’S Art And Native American Artificates: Issues For Museum Curators, John Wilton
Collecting Women’S Art And Native American Artificates: Issues For Museum Curators, John Wilton
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Egalitarianism is quite possibly the education buzzword of the eighties. Egalitarianism is belabored in the literature of late that it seems inconceivable that any person or institution with any degree of social responsibility has not yet acted to realign the programs and policies of our biased past. Yet many major social groups still remain disenfranchised in the current American cultural scenario. This commentary addresses the predicament of two of those groups-women and Native Americans. While seemingly unrelated, both groups share a common dilemma: their voices, their opinions and their expressions are not yet respected in the realm of art and …
Examining Environmental Advertising Imagery Through Art Education, Tom Anderson
Examining Environmental Advertising Imagery Through Art Education, Tom Anderson
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This is an examination of advertising imagery in the United States, with particular emphasis on outdoor advertising, and a proposal for an art curriculum focused on advertising awareness. The method is socially-oriented art criticism funded by some history of advertising and the psychology and philosophy of persuasive, manipulative, and pecuniary symbolism. The intent is first to decode the aesthetic environment (Barbosa, 1988) and then present a structure that helps art students to do the same. The examination begins with the object and returns to the object for validation (Ecker and Kaelin, 1970), but "ends with an understanding of personal experience, …