The History of American Art Education: Learning about Art in American Schools

by Peter Smith and Peter Smith

The ideas, people, and events that developed art education are described and analyzed so that art educators and educators in general will have a better understanding of what has happened (and is happening) to visual art in the schools. Peter Smith raises the issue of art education's inordinate emphasis on Eurocentric art. He challenges the often expressed notion that the field of education is the cause of art education's problems and proposes that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031329870X
• ISBN13: 9780313298707
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"