Reconsidering Critical Response: Student Judgments of Purpose, Interpretation, and Relationships in Visual Culture.

Freedman, Kerry; Wood, John

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ERIC Number: EJ584815

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Publication Date: 1999

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Reconsidering Critical Response: Student Judgments of Purpose, Interpretation, and Relationships in Visual Culture.

Freedman, Kerry; Wood, John

Studies in Art Education, v40 n2 p128-42 Win 1999

Focuses on ways in which a group of high school students responded to fine art and other forms of visual culture, such as advertising images, cartoons, and propaganda posters. Discusses three emergent themes in student responses: (1) purposes of imagery; (2) interpretation of images; and (3) relationships among images. (DSK)

Descriptors: Advertising, Art Education, Critical Viewing, Fine Arts, High School Students, High Schools, Mass Media, Popular Culture, Propaganda, Student Reaction, Visual Literacy

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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