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Winner, Ellen – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Highlights similarities and differences between the art making of normally developing and mentally retarded individuals. Defines pathological art as outsider art that can never be creative in the sense of relating to the artistic domain and engaging in a creative dialog with other artists that shape that domain. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
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Kindler, Anna M. – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Characterizes a number of cherished beliefs regarding early childhood art education as myths and argues that their continued use impedes educational reform. These include a belief in art as therapy, the inherent validity of childhood expression, the superiority of process over product, and limited intervention by teachers. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Teachers, Art Therapy
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Ishii, Takashi; Ishii, Akira; Ishii, Takaaki; Sugiyama, Toshiro – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Presents a series of pictures drawn by an autistic adult over a period of years. The pictures represent recollections of a day in his childhood. This representation is notable because of its consistent theme, as well as its reflection of the ability to reexperience and enjoy pleasant past memories. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
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Unsworth, Jean Morman – School Arts, 1990
Argues that a major factor for student dropouts is lack of self-esteem, and shows the therapeutic value of art activities. Describes a self-portrait lesson with 15- and 16-year-old juveniles in a detention center. Decries the lack of attention to art in the schools. Suggests allowing students to practice right-brain drawing can improve…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Art Activities, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Bertrand, Jacquelyn; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Reviews the results of a longitudinal study examining the development of drawing skills of six children with Williams Syndrome. Presents quantitative and qualitative data regarding recognizability, organization, and developmental progress. Reveals that, although extremely delayed, the children made consistent progress in a manner similar to normal…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Childrens Art
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Klager, Max – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Reviews two long-term case studies examining the art produced by two artistically gifted Down Syndrome patients. Their work shows a unique personal style characterized by flat, nonperspective compositions, canonical and mixed profile shapes, and symmetry. Both artists depict androgynous persons in their untutored drawings. Includes drawing samples…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Art Activities, Art Education
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Milbrath, Constance; Siegel, Bryna – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Traces the development of artistic ability in a six-year-old boy with autism and mild mental retardation. Addresses questions concerning autism and artistic development including whether intellectual realism is a necessary precursor to visual realism and whether a two-dimensional photographic memory is used as opposed to three-dimensional…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Autism
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Kellman, Julia – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Reviews the work of neurobiologist, David Marr, concerning artistic ability and autism. Summarizes Marr's theory of perceptual vision illuminating the relationships among object, observer, perceptual process, and image. Briefly reviews the cases of four autistic people with extraordinary drawing skills. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
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