This research is a case study aiming to reveal the experiences of art students towards the activity of "reproduction through appropriation". During the activity process, students were firstly informed about appropriation and the art of appropriation, especially the works in which two works of art were appropriated by integrating them,…

Targeting students in grades K-8, Art in Action's program consists of 12 age-appropriate lessons per year led by parent and teacher volunteers. The curriculum is based on historically significant artists and their works of art. Through semi-structured discussions, students examine a variety of masterpieces, learning about the artist as well as…

Many artists visit national parks to draw, paint and take photographs of some of the most amazing scenery on earth. Raw nature is one of the greatest inspirations to an artist, and artists can be credited for helping inspire the government to create the National Park System. This article features Thomas Moran (1837-1926), one of the artists who…

This essay draws on Chicanalo cultural studies and art history to interpret the way three artworks by Chicana artists address the relationship between spirit and flesh through the indigenous inflected iconography of la Virgen de Guadalupe. Recognizing the significance of the transcultural link between Tonantzin (the Nahua mother "goddess") and…

Offers background information on the art form of visual poetry. Suggest that visual poetry occupies an "intermedia" space between linear poetry and the visual arts. (RS)

Presents an informal discussion with composer John Cage which includes his response to George Maciunas' work, his recollections of Marcel Duchamp, the complex relationship between inelegant material and revealing works of art, neo-Dada and neo-Fluxus, Wittgenstein and the artist's ultimate responsibility to initiate a change in the viewer or…

Presents a discussion of visual poetry in Brazil and 14 examples of visual poetry. Includes 11 selected resources arranged by date and brief biographies of the 14 visual poets. (RS)

Presents a discussion of the history of visual poetry in Cuba and nine examples of visual poetry. (RS)

Presents a discussion of visual poetry in Italy and eight examples of visual poetry. Includes 18 selected resources arranged by date. (RS)

Presents a discussion of visual poetry in Portugal and 18 examples of visual poetry. Includes 24 selected resources and brief biographies of five Portuguese visual poets. (RS)

Presents a discussion of visual poetry in Uruguay and eight examples of visual poetry. Includes 27 selected resources and brief biographies of 9 Uruguayan visual poets. (RS)

Presents a discussion of visual poetry in the United States and 10 examples of visual poetry. Includes 10 selected resources. (RS)

A prevailing assumption of Western theorizing about art is that each work of fine art is to be attributed to a single individual, "the artist" who created it. Art education, particularly in art history, reflects this assumption. Despite the "New Art History" of the 1980s that revised and diversified the canon, education in art history remains a…

No single traditional discipline can adequately supply answers to the many unresolved questions in African art history. Because of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, and, not infrequently, political biases, already built into the conception and development of Western art history, the discipline of art history as defined and practiced in the West…

Describes the nature of intellectual access to digitized art images using qualitative methodologies based on a study at the University of Central Florida. Queries of art historians are analyzed and compared to retrieval parameters and image characteristics, and implications for database design are suggested. (Author/LRW)