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Fisher, Elaine Flory; And Others – School Arts, 1981
Fifty children, eight to twelve years old, took part in a summer Medieval Arts Workshop in which they studied and produced art, music, and drama typical of that era. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Art History, Fine Arts, Intermediate Grades, Medieval History
Nicholls, Paul; Ridley, Jacquline – Computers in Libraries, 1997
Apart from archival print collections, digital multimedia materials will be the primary form of library resources in the future. Argues that all published materials, print or electronic, are subject to analytical and critical examination. Describes art historian Erwin Panofsky's "Circulus Methodicus," a method of iconological analysis,…
Descriptors: Archives, Art History, Change, Criticism
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Hellwege, Pamela – School Arts, 1990
Describes the functions, styles, and methods of creating medieval tapestries. Illustrates a narrative tapestry titled "The Prophecy of Nathan," attributed to Master Philip. Describes how textile artists' personal styles can be recognized. Suggests art activities for elementary and secondary students. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
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Young, Jim – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1995
Records the responses of various members of the American Art Therapy Association to questions of the future direction of art therapy. The history of art as a communal experience in which all members of society participate is being lost, and the emphasis on therapy is minimizing the importance of artmaking. (JPS)
Descriptors: Art History, Art Therapy, Community, Community Development
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Small, Jocelyn Penny – Library Hi Tech, 1991
Describes the development of a system to retrieve images for an international project that is producing a pictorial dictionary of classical mythology, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Applications to other types of information are discussed, two classification systems for Art History are described, and design principles for…
Descriptors: Art History, Classification, Computer System Design, Databases
Texas Child Care, 1993
Gives instructions for student art projects inspired by the work of five famous artists: Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, and Michelangelo. Directions for making art smocks and a display kiosk are also included. (ME)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art History, Art Materials, Childrens Art
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Drucker, Johanna – Journal of Communication, 1994
Describes the emergence of the publication of artists' books as a historical phenomenon, particularly as a late twentieth-century innovation. Outlines the traditions and forms of various artists' books of the past several decades. Provides extensive coverage of this genre of book coverage, including numerous photographs. (HB)
Descriptors: Art History, Books, Cultural Context, Fine Arts
Distance Education Report, 2001
Discusses the potential of digital media in arts education and describes various projects using digital media. Highlights include online museums; digitizing university slide collections for the World Wide Web; the development of teaching resources; teaching art history online; and pertinent Web sites. (LRW)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Educational Resources, Higher Education
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Komrska, Shelley; Rupe, Melissa – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
Last year, a school embarked on a school-wide project that would take all of their students, kindergarten through-sixth grade, through a tangible art timeline. The result was a passageway--over seventy-five feet in length--that revealed the history of art, from cave painting to modern-day graffiti art. The "walk through time" was inspired by how…
Descriptors: Art Activities, School Activities, Art Education, Art History
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Noriega, Chon A. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2005
One must undertake multi-institutional efforts that include universities, archives, museums, libraries and community-based arts organizations and the artists to preserve Latino art history. Arts infrastructure can be strengthened by various Chicano Studies Research Center projects that are concerned with archive building and scholarship, and with…
Descriptors: Museums, Art History, Art Education, Latin Americans
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Wetzler, Pat – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2004
This article describes a project that introduces students in grades K-8 to new artistic styles, giving them an appreciation for an artist's work, as well as teaching them some art history. The teacher introduced this lesson to each grade by presenting examples of the artist's works either from posters or books. They discussed the distinctive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Artists, Art History, Art Education
Ligorio, M. Beatrice; Cesareni, Donatella; Schwartz, Neil – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Virtual environments are able to extend the space of interaction beyond the classroom. In order to analyze how distributed cognition functions in such an extended space, we suggest focusing on the architecture of intersubjectivity. The Euroland project--a virtual land created and populated by seven classrooms supported by a team of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Social Influences, Computer Uses in Education
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. – 1995
This publication is a performance guide containing several brief articles for students to use before and after attending an Arts Exposure Program given by the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH). The first article, "Dancing," traces the origins and history of dance itself, and in particular, ballet. The second article, "Arthur Mitchell…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art History, Artists
Danser, Richard – 1994
This practicum was designed to address an inadequacy in the knowledge base of ninth grade students with regard to art history and it's connection with historical events. The major goal was to make the students aware of art history and it's significance in human history. The study developed a Ninth Grade Art History Diagnostic Test and an Artistic…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Grade 9, High Schools
Rittner, Stephen – 1992
This work begins with a brief history of floral design. While floral art is often anonymously created, functional in purpose, and transient in nature, this document argues for validity of floral design as an art form. The bibliography of 617 works excludes non-design books, while presenting a wide range and variety of recent and past floral art…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art Activities, Art Education, Art History
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