| Description |
xii, 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
The art of teaching in the museum -- A brief history of teaching in the art museum -- Gallery teaching as guided interpretation -- Intense looks: solitude, scholarship, and a teacher's transformative experience -- Conversation, discussion, and dialogue -- Questioning the use of questions -- Information in gallery teaching: Charles Le Brun's Water tapestry -- Gallery teaching as interpretive play -- The Barnes foundation as a place for teaching -- The last temptation -- The future of teaching in art museums |
| Summary |
Teaching in the Art Museum investigates the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education. In this book Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee define and articulate a new approach to gallery teaching, one that offers groups of visitors deep and meaningful experiences of interpreting art works through a process of intense, sustained looking and thoughtfully facilitated dialogue.--[book cover] |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art museums -- Educational aspects.
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Art museums -- Environmental aspects.
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Art -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Kai-Kee, Elliott.
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J. Paul Getty Museum.
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| LC no. |
2010037002 |
| ISBN |
1606060589 (paperback) |
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9781606060582 (paperback) |
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