Art for Life: Authentic Instruction in Art

by Anderson, Tom; Milbrandt, Melody

• ISBN13: 9780072508642
• ISBN10: 0072508647
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

By offering practical ideas for revealing the meaning and relevance of art to humanity, this text helps art students become effective art teachers. Unlike most art pedagogy texts,Art for Lifeoffers a holistic approach to the art curriculum, through classroom illustrations and comprehensive art content, engaging to art students today.

Author Biography

Tom Anderson a native of Montana and longtime Florida resident, is professor and former chair in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He also has worked as a public school art teacher in Oregon and as a commercial artist in Chicago. He has written more than seventy articles, reviews, and book chapters and is the author of one other book, Real Lives: Art Teachers and the Cultures of School. He was cofounder, in 1995, and is still a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Children's Guernica Peace Mural Project. His international teaching and service includes stints in Italy, Spain, Kuwait, and Japan; talks to international audiences in Taiwan, Korea, Canada, and Australia; and service in the International Baccalaureate Program in Wales, Italy, Canada, and the United States. Over the course of his career, Dr. Anderson has been particularly interested in the social foundations of art and education, as well as art criticism and aesthetic inquiry, especially in art for life. He is married to Mary Beth McBride and has two adult daughters, Carrie and Amelia.

Melody K. Milbrandt is an associate professor and coordinator of art education at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She taught art in public schools (K-12) for eighteen years before moving to higher education in 1996. Throughout her teaching career she has been active in state and national art education association, providing approximately, fifty workshops and presentations at professional meetings. These presentations have addressed her long-standing interests in creativity, cognitive abilities, and social issues in the art classroom. Her dissertation, An Authentic Instructional Model for Fifth Grade Art using Postmodern Content, was awarded a J. Paul Getty Fellowship in 1995. Since then she has written a number of articles, reviews, and book chapters on a variety of topics related to contemporary issues in art education. Her current teaching and research interests include the role of art criticism and aesthetics in a multicultural setting. Dr. Milbrandt is a past president of the Kansas Art Education Association and was honored as Elementary Art Educator of the Year in Both Kansas and Georgia. She is active in the Georgia Art Education Association and received the Southeastern Region Higher Education Award for 2004. She and her husband, Dr. Lanny Milbrandt, have four adult children and five grandchildren. Her studio interest is mixed-media painting.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction

Part 1: Conceptual Foundations and Structure for Art for Life

Chapter 1: Art for Life

Chapter 2: Authentic Instruction: The Theoretical Foundation for Art for Life

Part 2: Teaching and Learning Strategies for Art for Life

Chapter 3: Art Education and Visual Culture

Chapter 4: Individual Expression and Creativity

Chapter 5: Aesthetics

Chapter 6: Art Criticism

Chapter 7: Art History

Chapter 8: Making Art

Chapter 9: New Technologies and Art Education

Part 3: Models for Teaching and Learning Art for Life: Introduction to Part Three

Chapter 10: What Drives You? Research Notebooks and a Sense of Self

Chapter 11: A Sense of Community: Krzysztof Wodiczko and the Social Responsibility of Art

Chapter 12: A Sense of Place and of Community: Sea Full of Clouds-Nancy Merrill, Ciel Bergman, and Ecological Consciousness

Chapter 13: A Sense of Self, of Place, and of Community-Fred Wilson's Installation Art and Reconstruction of the Historical Narrative

Chapter 14: A Sense of Self, of Place, and of Community-Exploring Issues of Identity through the Metalwork of Charnelle Holloway

Chapter 15: A Sense of Self, of Place, and of Community-Art for Peace

Chapter 16: Art Education for Life

Conclusion Resources References Key Terms Index