What Art Teaches Us: Reexamining the Pillars of Visual Arts Curricula

by Timothy Babulski

Overview

This book critically examines four areas common to visual arts curricula: the elements of art and principles of design, the canons of human proportions, linear perspective, and RYB color theory. For each, the author presents a compelling case detailing how current art teaching fails students, explores the history of how it came to be part of the discourse, and then proffers cognitivist and holistic alternatives. This book provides a framework for teachers and teacher-candidates to shape how they advocate for intellectual rigor and embodied learning and, importantly, how they can subvert an existing curriculum to better meet the educational needs of their students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030277673
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/10/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Timothy Babulski is an artist, art teacher, and independent scholar of arts education.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What Art Teaches
3. Formalism and False History
4. A Monstrous, Misshapen Ideal
5. Twisting Reality
6. Finding the Purple
7. Conclusions