While the International Women's Year, designated by the United Nations, focused on the infinite and varied resources of women in all fields, the author devoted his attention to the accomplishments of some women in the fine arts. (Author/RK)

A project which developed a retrieval system to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of an interactive computer and video display system over traditional methods for using a slide library is described in this publication. The art school slide library of the University of Iowa stores transparencies which are arranged alphabetically within…

One of the most significant characteristics which appears to have continually pervaded educational thought and practice is that of the "either/or," the "pendulum of education." The author discusses its impact upon art education by examining the issue of art history vs art making. (Author/RK)

Uncertainty about attributions of works of art and shifts in opinion leading to reattributions are intensifying the study of connoisseurship, the process by which an art historian or curator seeks to determine who made a work of art. (MSE)

Examines some problems in teaching art history to students in a fine arts program. Argues that art history should be taught as the history of recurring artistic problems. (Author/RKM)

Profiles the life and achievements of Marion Richardson, who is credited with developing the child art movement, and inventing Writing and Writing Patterns. The article also traces Richardson's neglected contribution to art education. (BSR)

Reviews the development of the new structure of art in England, France, and the United States. Examines how twentieth century changes in technology and science have created such artistic tools as photography and the computer. Explores how man's relationship with nature has changed in this period. (BSR)

Reviews the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and examines how his early experiences influenced his art. (BSR)

Provides a brief background on current developments in aesthetics and the contested concepts of three approaches to aesthetics: (1) historical philosophical aesthetics; (2) aesthetic perception and experience; and (3) aesthetic inquiry. Concludes by proposing a fourth approach based on critical theory. (Author/BSR)

Presents two art lessons, the first of which introduces elementary students to Dutch still life painting and to the Dutch painter Claesz. The second lesson introduces intermediate grade students to still life as a subject for painting and to the possibility of personal interpretation by an artist, as shown in an O'Keefe painting. (RM)

Early European and Euro-American artists documented the land, people, flora, and fauna of western North America. These artists gave Europeans and eastern Americans their first glimpse of the west. Because artists were important to the early explorers and topographers of the west, this document advocates study of western art and artists as an…

Discusses the structure of art history education in elementary and secondary schools and the need for alternative teaching approaches to meet the goals of British general education. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW England. (AM)

Art becomes "moving life" as students portray characters in museum works of art. (Editor/SJL)

The author describes the history, theories, and methods of the German institution called the Bauhaus, which he considers to be the basic influence on American studio art education in the last 50 years. (Author/SJL)

Presented are four possible content bases for art programs, with an expanded discussion of one of them--the anthropological base, which is described as the study of artistic origins. (KC)