Developing visual arts education in the United States : Massachusetts Normal Art School and the normalization of creativity / Mary Ann Stankiewicz.
2016
N346.A1
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Title
Developing visual arts education in the United States : Massachusetts Normal Art School and the normalization of creativity / Mary Ann Stankiewicz.
ISBN
9781137544490 (electronic book)
113754449X (electronic book)
9781137544483
113754449X (electronic book)
9781137544483
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-54449-0 doi
9781137544483
9781137544483
Call Number
N346.A1
Dewey Decimal Classification
700.71/1
Summary
This book examines how Massachusetts Normal Art School became the alma mater par excellence for generations of art educators, designers, and artists. The founding myth of American art education is the story of Walter Smith, the school's first principal. This historical case study argues that Smith's students formed the professional network to disperse art education across the United States, establishing college art departments and supervising school art for industrial cities. As administrative progressives they created institutions and set norms for the growing field of art education. Nineteenth-century artists argued that anyone could learn to draw; by the 1920s, every child was an artist whose creativity waited to be awakened. Arguments for systematic art instruction under careful direction gave way to charismatic artist-teachers who sought to release artistic spirits. The task for art education had been redefined in terms of living the good life within a consumer culture of work and leisure.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Arts in higher education.
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Table of Contents
1 Learning to Draw in Antebellum Massachusetts
2 Relating to Free Instruction in Drawing
3 Thoroughly Sound and Searching Training
4 Pioneers Putting Their Hands to the Plow
5 This Great Industrial Battle
6 A Great Art-Awakening
7 Social Efficiency, Beauty, and the World's Work
8 Alma Mater Par Excellence.
2 Relating to Free Instruction in Drawing
3 Thoroughly Sound and Searching Training
4 Pioneers Putting Their Hands to the Plow
5 This Great Industrial Battle
6 A Great Art-Awakening
7 Social Efficiency, Beauty, and the World's Work
8 Alma Mater Par Excellence.