What Art Teaches Us Reexamining the Pillars of Visual Arts Curricula /

• Main Author: Babulski, Timothy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Art education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; Higher education.; Creativity and Arts Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Higher Education.

This book critically examines four areas common to visual arts curricula: the elements of art and principles of design, the canons of human proportions, linear perspective, and RYB color theory. For each, the author presents a compelling case detailing how current art teaching fails students, explor...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What Art Teaches
• 3. Formalism and False History
• 4. A Monstrous, Misshapen Ideal
• 5. Twisting Reality
• 6. Finding the Purple
• 7. Conclusions
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