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Linear Perspective And Montage: Two Dominating Paradigms In Art Education, Charles R. Garoian

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

As a former public high school art teacher, I was always puzzled by the common belief held by my students in what they referred to as the right way to represent images and ideas in their drawings and paintings. After years of producing art works during early childhood that appeared to be uninhibited in their expressive qualities, their world view in adolescence had shifted dramatically towards a preoccupation with photographic representation realism.