A project to educate secondary school students in the performing arts is discussed. (CK)

A statement on the value of the Arts in American Life by the Chairman of the Senate Special Subcommittee on the Arts and Humanities. (Editor/EJS)

The appreciation of art and literature is a cognitive ability in which knowledge and understanding have a central place. This understanding has implications for educators who teach art appreciation. (AM)

A four-stage chart of skills and concepts can be used as a basis for dance analysis. The use of the chart may provide a means by which a more informed response to and a deeper experience of dance may be made possible and in consequence a more discerning dance public may be created. (AM)

Outlines and illustrates a process of teacher-student dialog based on Ingarden's analysis of art appreciation and Beardsley's discussion of art criticism. A qualified teacher guides student in grasping a work of art's pervasive quality, describing and interpreting its parts and relations, and judging the overall expression of the work. (AM)

The author begins by defining a counter-aesthetic element as an element of an aesthetic object which is: unintended in the creation of the object; generally selected out in attention to the object; and, generally, if selected in or attended to, such as to lower the aesthetic quality of the object, or at the very least not to increase the quality…

An exploration of the ways that technology increasingly alters our understanding of self and the world in which we live points to the unfolding of what computer theorist Peter Lunenfeld (2000) calls a hyperaesthetics. In this article, the author correlates theories of art and artmaking with a burgeoning hyperaesthetics through theoretical…

Numerous incidents have been reported in recent years wherein a work of art is mistaken as trash. The question is, how have people reached the point in the civilized world where a purported work of art cannot be distinguished from a pile of rubbish or a grid of condensation pipes? The answer to that question lies in the basic assumption of nearly…

This guide is intended to aid local elementary and middle schools in Idaho as they improve and expand art instruction for their students. This model is built around discipline-based art education and allows students to experience art aesthetics, art history, art criticism, and art production. This is a sample and is not considered to be…

Presents four lesson plans that use paintings, illustrations, and photographs that tell a story. The lessons consider the use and characteristics of narrative. Includes work from, "The Book of Deeds of Alexander the Great," as well as the works of Georges de La Tour, Eileen Cowin, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. (MJP)

AN ARTS INSTITUTE WAS DEVELOPED AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY THAT IS INDEPENDENT BUT ALSO ORGANIZATIONALLY AFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY. THE INSTITUTE OPERATES MANY VARIED ENTERPRISES IN THE FIELDS OF VISUAL ARTS, DRAMA, DANCE, MUSIC, AND OPERA. A SURVEY ASSEMBLED DATA TO TEST THE THEORY THAT MANY LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AREA COULD BE…

Art education has been a part of the curriculum of American public schools for more than a century, since the first programs for drawing instruction were organized in Massachusetts in the 1870's. Since that time, a theme has emerged which continues to characterize art education into the present: the paradox that art education has consistently…

Early in the eighteenth century, Pompeii was discovered, a city that had been hidden for sixteen centuries by volcanic lava. There is a traveling exhibition of the sculptures, friezes, mosaics, and paintings being shown around the United States. Described is the history and contents of "Pompeii--A.D. 79." (RK)

Explains how senior high school students increased their ability to critically analyze the visual images that bombard them daily through television by making a videotape which involved the students in critiquing the paintings of Francis Silver. (JDH)

Provides a visual analysis of Wayne Thiebaud's painting of a San Francisco street scene, "Corner Apartments (Down 18th Street)." Identifies key concepts, provides a brief biography, and suggests four elementary level and five secondary level follow-up activities. (JDH)