Using Internet primary sources to teach critical thinking skills in the visual arts
By: Pamela J. Eyerdam.
Series: Libraries Unlimited professional guides in school librarianship
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781417656127
Subjects: Art -- History -- Study and teaching.; Art -- Computer network resources.
Description: Shows how to use the Internet to teach visual arts and refine students' critical thinking skills. Offers many primary source web sites and background information. Focuses on western art history and painting but includes examples of sculpture, drawing, prints and architecture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.
Table of contents: value: pt. 1. History, critical thinking, and using the Internet; value: A brief history of the developments in art education; value: Developing critical thinking skills in the visual arts; value: Using primary sources on the Internet in the visual arts; value: pt. 2. Applying critical thinking skills in the visual arts; value: Elements and principles of design; value: Prehistoric and ancient Middle Eastern art; value: Ancient Egyptian art; value: Aegean and Greek art; value: Etruscan and Roman art; value: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art; value: Early Medieval and Medieval art; value: Birth of the Renaissance: early Renaissance art; value: High Renaissance art; value: Mannerism; value: Northern Renaissance art; value: The Baroque of Italy, Spain, and France; value: Flemish and Dutch art; value: European art; value: Romanticism and Realism; value: Impressionism; value: Post-Impressionism; value: Early Modern art and Cubism; value: Dada and Surrealism; value: Art since the 1930s; value: Women artists of the twentieth century; value: Introduction to diversity.