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The history of American art education : learning about art in American schools

The ideas, people, and events that developed art education are described and analyzed so that art educators and educators in general will have a better understanding of what has happened (and is happening) to visual art in the schools.
Print Book, English, 1996
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1996
History
x, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
9780313298707, 031329870X
33079701
1. The Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in America
2. The Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth Century
3. Germanic Influences
4. Franz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical Knowledge
5. American Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture Study
6. American Women in Visual Arts Education: Outstanding Leaders and the Interaction Between Gender Bias and Art's Status
7. A Charismatic American
8. Gender and the History of Visual Arts Education: Survival and Disappearance
9. Of Women and Art Education: Roles of Importance
10. A Colossus of Sorts
11. The Post-Lowenfeld Era: Radical Dissent and Thoughtful Revisionism
12. From Aesthetic Education to Discipline-based Art Education: Intellectualizations and Confusions