Histories of art and design education : collected essays / edited by Mervyn Romans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romans, Mervyn.

Series:

Readings in art and design education series.

Readings in art and design education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Study and teaching--History.

Art.

Design--Study and teaching--History.

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Portland, Or. : Intellect, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections that propose the emergence of genres of research in the field - Drawing from examples, Motives and rationales for public art and design education in Britain, Features of institutional art and design education, Towards art and design education as a profession, Pivotal figures in the history of art

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Notes on Authors; Introduction: Rethinking Art and Design Education Histories - Mervyn Romans; Chapter 1: A Preliminary Survey of Drawing Manuals in Britain c.1825-1875 - Rafael Cardoso; Chapter 2: 'How to Draw' Books as Sources for Understanding Art Education of the Nineteenth Century - Diana Korzenik; Chapter 3: A Question of 'Taste': Re-examining the Rationale for the Introduction of Public Art and Design Education to Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century - Mervyn Romans

Chapter 4: Social Class and the Origin of Public Art and Design Education in Britain: In Search of a Target Group - Mervyn Romans Chapter 5: Birmingham and its Art School: Changing Views 1800-1921 - John Swift; Chapter 6: Women and Art Education at Birmingham's Art Schools 1880-1920: Social Class, Opportunity and Aspiration - John Swift; Chapter 7: The Early History of the NSEAD: the Society of Art Masters (1888-1909) and the National Society of Art Masters (1909-1944) - David Thistlewood; Chapter 8: In SEA: Past, Present and Future - John Steers

Chapter 9: Looking, Drawing and Learning with John Ruskin at the Working Men's College - Ray Haslam Chapter 10: Marion Richardson (1892-1946) - Bruce Holdsworth; Chapter 11: Herbert Read: a Critical Appreciation at the Centenary of his Birth - David Thistlewood; Chapter 12: Basic Design and the Pedagogy of Richard Hamilton - Richard Yeomans; Chapter 13: Who is to do this Great Work for Canada? South Kensington in Ontario - Graeme Chalmers; Chapter 14: European Modernist Art into Japanese School Art: the Free Drawing Movement in the 1920's - Akio Okazaki; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610477098

9781280477096

1280477091

9781841509273

1841509272

OCLC:

191943680