Readings on Art Education
In Aristos
"What about the Other Face of Contemporary Art?" by Michelle Marder Kamhi & Louis Torres (Art Education, March 2008-- reprinted in Aristos, June 2008)
"Why Teach Art?" (review of Arthur Efland, Art and Cognition), by Michelle Marder Kamhi (December 2006--reprinted, with notes, in Arts Education Policy Review, March/April 2007)
"Modernism, Postmodernism, or Neither?--A Fresh Look at 'Fine Art,'" by Michelle Marder Kamhi (August 2005--reprinted, with notes, in Arts Education Policy Review, May/June 2006)
"Why We [Art Teachers] Need a Definition of Art," by Kenneth Lansing (December 2004)
- Aristos Award to Lansing for "Is a Definition of Art Necessary for the Teaching of Art?" (Journal of Aesthetic Education, July 1980).
"Sitting on Furniture and Other 'Visual Art' Experiences" (a critique of the views of two prominent advocates of studying "visual culture" in art education), by Louis Torres (May 2004)
"Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies,'" by Michelle Marder Kamhi (January 2004--reprinted, with notes, in Arts Education Policy Review, September/October 2004)
"Art Succumbs to 'Visual Culture'" (on the "visual arts" at Barnard College), by Michelle Marder Kamhi (May 2003)
"The Future of the Art World" (review of MFA exhibition at Columbia University), by Louis Torres (May 2003)
"Where's the Art in Today's Art Education?" by Michelle Marder Kamhi (November 2002--reprinted, with notes, in Arts Education Policy Review, March/April 2003)
In What Art Is
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"Teaching the Arts to Children," in Torres & Kamhi, What Art Is, Chapter 15 (summary)
"The Definition of Art," in Torres & Kamhi, What Art Is, Chapter 6 (excerpts)
Also of interest in Aristos
[See further articles in the Archives.]
"The Interminable Monopoly of the Avant-Garde," by Louis Torres (January 2008)
"Artworld Maverick" (review of Julian Spalding, The Eclipse of Art), by Louis Torres (November 2007)
"Thought and Feeling in Art," by Michelle Marder Kamhi (November 2007)
"Tom Wolfe's Epiphany" (on Wolfe's classic, The Painted Word), by Louis Torres (January 2006)
"Not Smart about Art" (review of Carol Strickland, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern), by Louis Torres (December 2003)
"Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde," by Michelle Marder Kamhi (January 2003)