Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references and index. Studies the role of art in American culture, politics, and education, and notes how art as an intellectually rigorous activity encourages higher order thinking and scholarship in teachers and students.
From the Publisher
While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste, the Sensation controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in general for the twenty-first century. By asking serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching, this book explores the power of art to shape both our emotions and our intellect.