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Steppingstones

Pivotal Moments in Art Education History

by Paul E. Bolin, Ami Kantawala and Mary Ann Stankiewicz

Published by: Teachers College Press

Imprint: Teachers College Press

256 Pages, 154.00 × 226.00 × 17.00 mm

Paperback
9780807765067
Published: July 2021

£32.00

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Hardcover
9780807765074
Published: July 2021

£94.00

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Representing the first extensive volume on the history of art education to be published in 20 years, this book will generate new interpretations of both local and global histories for 21st-century readers. Steppingstones captures pivotal moments in art education history within the United States and globally. Chapters are situated within the broad and active stream of history, identified by the authors as places to pause, step down, and deeply explore these moments and the vibrant terrain that surrounds them. Some steppingstones in the volume are new and fresh reappraisals of familiar and well-recognized landing places in art education history. Other steppingstones contain discussions of previously unknown or overlooked material uncovered by the authors. Digging deep, getting beneath, and revealing steppingstones that embrace a pathway through the past, this book explores dynamic and spirited narratives about various people, institutions, events, tensions, and international perspectives that have shaped and continue to direct the course of art and design education.

Book Features:

Investigates contemporary issues through a lens toward the past, including issues of race, cultural protocols, intersectionality, international influence, White privilege, disability studies, and other social concerns.
Presents contributions from well-known senior scholars alongside new voices of several emerging scholars of color.
Includes biographical accounts of African American artists and educators, and the role and influence of the Harlem Renaissance.
Contains discussion of art education in colonial India and explores complex relationships between colonizer-colonized histories.
Focuses on art education in the United States with discussion of specific international influences.
Offers contemporary best practices for doing historical research and strategies for teaching art education history courses at the university level.
Highlights the significance of digital humanities and digital scholarship.

Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

PART I: THOUGHTS ON HISTORY, HISTORICAL RESEARCH, AND TEACHING ART EDUCATION HISTORY 1

1. Steppingstones for a Future Past: Considering Metaphors Within Historical Discourse in Art Education 3
Paul E. Bolin

2. Digital Resources and Methodologies for Historical Investigation 14
Mary Ann Stankiewicz and Henry Pisciotta

3. Historical Research: Digging and Shaping Vessels of Meaning 28
Ami Kantawala

PART II: PIVOTAL STEPPINGSTONES IN ART EDUCATION HISTORY 45

4. Intricacies of the British Schools of Design and Their Lasting Pedagogical Influence 47
Ami Kantawala

5. A Window Into Art Education in India: The Great Exhibition of 1851 58
Ami Kantawala

6. Seeking to Rise From “The Foot of the Column”: Initiating and Legislating Required Drawing Instruction in Massachusetts Public Schools, 1869–1870 72
Paul E. Bolin

7. Times of Change: International Influences of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition on Art Education in New England and Beyond in the Late 19th Century 86
Paul E. Bolin

8. White City, Dark Days: Constructing Racism in Art Education at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair 101
Mary Ann Stankiewicz

9. Artful Living: Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Her Work in Art Education at the Palmer Memorial Institute 114
Kathryn Farkas and Paul E. Bolin

10. Administrative Progressives, Functional Art Education, and Commercial Culture, 1918–1945 129
Mary Ann Stankiewicz

11. BLACK(lash): Political Resistance and Black Artists of the Harlem Renaissance 144
Alphonso Walter Grant and Ami Kantawala

12. To “See With Your Ears”: Examples of Art Education Through the Technology of Radio in the United States, 1929–1943 162
Paul E. Bolin

13. Hidden Narratives of Creative Expression: Viktor Lowenfeld and African American Art Education 176
J. Célèste Kee and Mary Ann Stankiewicz

14. The 1965 Penn State Seminar: Context, Content, Congregants, and Consequences 191
Mary Ann Stankiewicz and Felix Rodriguez

15. History in the Present: Contemporary Issues 206
Ami Kantawala

Index 221

About the Authors 235