On knowing
Subtitle: art and visual culture
By: edited by Paul Duncum & Ted Bracey.
Contributors: Duncum, Paul.; Bracey, Ted.
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Christchurch, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Art -- Philosophy.; Visual communication in art.; Popular culture.; Art and society.
Other titles: Art and visual culture
Description: Essays drawing upon a range of disciplines to present arguments that help unravel the complex nature of aesthetic understanding and its relevance to contemporary education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The position statements. How are we to understand art at the beginning of a new century? / Paul Duncum; title: How do we understand art? : aesthetics and the problem of meaning in the curriculum / Kerry Freedman; title: What does it mean to know art? : an institutional account / Ted Bracey; title: How can we know art? : the purple haze of epistemology in art education / Philip Pearson; title: Knowing art through multiple lenses : in defence of purple haze and grey areas / Graeme Chalmers; title: How can theory inform knowing and teaching about art? / Elizabeth Garber; title: The responses. Art, visual culture and art education / Paul Duncum; title: Understanding art as process and product : so what's new? / Kerry Freedman; title: Art and social life : some differences of approach / Ted Bracey; title: Retreat from the purple haze / Philip Pearson; title: Maintaining the purple haze / Graeme Chalmers; title: Knowing art as a social entity / Elizabeth Garber.