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Title From drawing to visual culture : a history of art education in Canada / edited by Harold Pearse
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction / Harold Pearse -- Learning to draw at the Barrie Mechanics' Institute / F. Graeme Chalmers -- Postsecondary art education in Quebec from the 1870s to the 1920s / J. Craig Sterling -- Postsecondary art education in Ontario, 1876-1912 / J. Craig Sterling -- The dawn of the twentieth century: art education in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia / Harold Pearse -- Modern art and child art in Quebec: the symbiotic relationship between the art field and child art / Suzanne Lemerise and Leah Sherman -- Social reconstruction, visuality, and the exhibition of democratic ideals in Canadian schools, 1930-1950 / E. Lisa Panayotidis -- More than an improvement in drawing: art learning in one Vancouver secondary school, 1920-1950 / Wendy Stephenson -- Art education in Ontario, 1950-2000: unlimited potential and unfulfilled promise / Roger Clark -- The electronic era: radio and television school art broadcasts in Canada / Bill Zuk and Robert Dalton -- Afterword / Harold Pearse
Summary From Drawing to Visual Culture takes a sweeping view of the role of visual art in Canadian education, from its roots as industrial drawing in the early nineteenth century to its important but often ambiguous position in contemporary schools. Art education and cultural history scholars consider practices in public schools, post-secondary schools, and non-school settings. The essays, many illustrated, range from focused surveys of particular eras or regions, to theoretically based analyses of movements or trends, to case studies that examine art education theory and practice in specific times and places. Contributors show that the nature and character of art education in Canada reflects the influence of ideas and practices in art and education and their interaction with various aspects of culture, language, religion, government, and geography. Contributors include F. Graeme Chalmers (British Columbia), Roger Clark (Western Ontario), Robert Dalton (Victoria), Suzanne Lemerise (Quebec à Montreal), E. Lisa Panayotidis (Calgary), Leah Sherman (Concordia), J. Craig Stirling (independent scholar and researcher, Montreal), Wendy Stephenson (PhD candidate, British Columbia), William Zuk (Manitoba)
Notes Limited edition of 450 copies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Art -- Study and teaching -- Canada -- History
ART -- Study & Teaching.
ART -- General.
Art -- Study and teaching
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pearse, Harold
ISBN 9780773560215
0773560211
1282850164
9781282850163
9786612850165
6612850167