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What Art Teaches Us

Reexamining the Pillars of Visual Arts Curricula

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Offers a major rethinking of the practical ways visual arts instruction is taught in classrooms

  • Implicates the material, experiential, and embodied aspects of art learning as vital avenues of curricular exploration

  • Presents an embodied approach to visual arts curriculum

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 1-17
  3. What Art Teaches

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 19-47
  4. Formalism and False History

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 49-83
  5. A Monstrous, Misshapen Ideal

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 85-120
  6. Twisting Reality

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 121-147
  7. Finding the Purple

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 149-175
  8. Conclusions

    • Timothy Babulski
    Pages 177-193
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 195-200

About this book

This book critically examines four areas common to visual arts curricula: the elements of art and principles of design, the canons of human proportions, linear perspective, and RYB color theory. For each, the author presents a compelling case detailing how current art teaching fails students, explores the history of how it came to be part of the discourse, and then proffers cognitivist and holistic alternatives. This book provides a framework for teachers and teacher-candidates to shape how they advocate for intellectual rigor and embodied learning and, importantly, how they can subvert an existing curriculum to better meet the educational needs of their students.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Minneapolis, USA

    Timothy Babulski

About the author

Timothy Babulski is an artist, art teacher, and independent scholar of arts education. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What Art Teaches Us

  • Book Subtitle: Reexamining the Pillars of Visual Arts Curricula

  • Authors: Timothy Babulski

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27768-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27767-3Published: 21 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27770-3Published: 21 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27768-0Published: 09 October 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Curriculum Studies, Higher Education

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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