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Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

6 reviews
Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, ...

Teachers College Press, 2007

Research grounded in reality
Lois Hetlund and her colleagues have written an important book that grounds academic research firmly in the real world of schools. It is readable, accessable, and yet contains profound truths. Documenting and describing the sorts of thinking that can take place in high quality arts programs, the authors remind us of what a true education should contain, despite the ...

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

12 reviews
Rudolf Arnheim

University of California Press, 2004

The Best book on form perception
This book is a treasure for all artists, and architects.It is a good book with many illustrations and analysis. If You need to know how to deal with forms, shapes, and their parameters as a professional, this is the right book to buy. Sometimes I think that it is too late to read again about form,but Arnhiem's book is not only about form perception it is about life experience in how to read ...

Captain Visual's Big Book Of Balloon Art: A Complete Book of Balloonology for Beginners and Advanced Twisters

15 reviews
Captain Visual

Citadel, 2000

Worth the investment - even during this time of inflation! *snort*
Easy to read & follow & a wonderful resource for beginner & advanced twisters alike. Be careful of copyright violations for several of the characters but this book is a must-have for your library!

MTEL Visual Art Sample Test 17 (XAM MTEL)

1 review
Sharon Wynne

Xam Online.com, 2007

Don't waste your time or money
This book does not even remotely represent what is on the actual MTEL Visual Art test.

Art: The Definitive Visual Guide
DK Publishing

DK Publishing, 2008

ART , the ultimate visual guide to 2,000 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures, begins with a short section on how to look at paintings and sculpture, explaining the simple steps of formal analysis that swiftly become automatic and greatly increase and inform your enjoyment of art. The main part of the book is a 540-page chronological look at more than 700 artists. This section is subdivided into the main periods of art history ...

Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals

1 review
Judith Perani, Fred T. Smith

Prentice Hall, 1998

Excellent
Fred Smith and Judith Perani are co-authors, not contributo

African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present
Celeste-Marie Bernier

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

In African American Visual Arts Celeste-Marie Bernier introduces readers to the sheer diversity, range, and experimental nature of African American art and artists and considers their relationship to key motifs within black culture and black experience in North America. The book traces the major developments in African American visual culture from its beginnings in the ceramics and textiles of slave artisans to later contributions in the ...

College Guide for Visual Arts Majors 2009: Real-World Admission Guide for All Fine Arts, Design, and Media ...
Peterson's

Peterson's, 2008

Peterson?s College Guide for Visual Arts Majors helps students find the perfect college program for studying fine arts, graphic design, architecture, media arts, or any of the many other art disciplines. Comprehensive profiles of undergraduate and graduate programs in both the U.S. and Canada outline costs, deadlines, enrollment, faculty, financial aid, and more. Also included is a wealth of information and insight from college deans, admission ...

MTEL Visual Arts (17) Exam Secrets Study Guide: MTEL Test Review for the Massachusetts Tests for Educator ...
MTEL Exam Secrets Test Prep Team

Morrison Media LLC, 2008

MTEL Visual Arts (17) Exam Secrets helps you ace the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive MTEL Visual Arts (17) Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ...

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

3 reviews
bell hooks

New Press, 1995

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
hooks challenges all who reads this book find the importance in their own histories. She makes the reader aware of the lack of representation of African American artists as well as the lack of representation of minorities and women in art history. She looks at more than just the injustice of the whole system but also the importance of images in peoples lives. hooks has a very refreshing ...

Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture (Vintage)

4 reviews
Michael Kammen

Vintage, 2007

A History of the Culture Wars
Artist George Braque said, "Art is meant to disturb." This is a profoundly twentieth-century view of what art should accomplish, and clashes with the views of most Americans who enjoy going to a museum or contemplating a commemorative civic sculpture, and do not do so for any advantage of being disturbed. There has certainly been an acceleration of controversy in America regarding art; the ...

Photography and the Art of Seeing: A Visual Perception Workshop for Film and Digital Photography

29 reviews
Freeman Patterson

Key Porter Books, 2004

An excellent source to learn to see again
This is not a basic how-to book for beginning photographers. It doesn't teach you about f-stops, shutter speeds, or the rule of thirds. What it does do is try to teach you new ways of looking at things, and how to actually see what you're looking at. I've been a photographer for many years, and I found my inspiration and creativity fading. I picked up this book as a reference for a seminar I ...

Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)

Clark Art Institute, 2003

Art history, aesthetics and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This study explores the connections and differences between these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning and ...

Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue (Engaging Culture)

2 reviews
William A. Dyrness

Baker Academic, 2001

Phenominal Scholarly Overview
I really enjoyed how this book looked very practically at the arts and the evolution of them within the church. It gives not only a historical requirement to continue to press for more artistic use and involvement in the modern movement of the church, but also gives practical ways in which to do so. If you're involved in creative arts ministry in any capacity, you probably should read this book ...

The Visual Arts: A History (Combined) (7th Edition)
Hugh Honour, John F. Fleming

Prentice Hall, 2005

Visual Arts As a Way of Knowing (Strategies for Teaching and Learning Professional Library)
Karolynne Gee

Stenhouse Publishers, 1999

The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, V. 5.)
Steven Johnson

Routledge, 2001

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a group of painters. The latter group, now known collectively as either the New York School or the Abstract Expressionists, included Jackson Pollock, Willem ...

Opportunities in Visual Arts Careers (Opportunities in)

1 review
Mark Salmon

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Unless you're one of three people buy something else
This book was written for one of three types of people. If you don't find an apt description of yourself in the following few words don't bother reading on- 19 year old art student, 62 year old still-life painter, failed artist. I might should have thought this one through a bit more before purchasing. Well at least I've done the leg-work for you. So have fun 19 year olds and still-lifers.

History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the Visual Arts

3 reviews
Arthur D. Efland

Teachers College Press, 1989

Provides a solid understanding of social forces
Do the arts deserve a higher place in our children's education? Yes... and no... It depends on your outlook in relation to history. This text places art education within the social context of general education in the West (most specifically America for a majority of the book). Doing so allows for an examination of why one generation may learn about art and its process, while the next generation ...

NYSTCE Visual Arts (079) Test Secrets Study Guide: NYSTCE Exam Review for the New York State Teacher ...
NYSTCE Exam Secrets Test Prep Team

Morrison Media LLC, 2008

NYSTCE Visual Arts (079) Test Secrets helps you ace the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive NYSTCE Visual Arts (079) Test Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score ...

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