Seymour Simmons

The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula

Historical and Philosophical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction, this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to cognitive and holistic development applicable within and beyond the visual arts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781138479975
• ISBN-10: 1138479977
• Artikelnr.: 61605533

Autorenporträt

Seymour Simmons III is a Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Winthrop University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface: Toward a Renaissance in Drawing Education
Chapter 1: Introduction: Making the Case for Learning to Draw in Changing
Times
Chapter 2: Beginnings: Drawing as an Innate Human Capacity and a Matter of
the Mind
Chapter 3: What's in a Name? The Uses of Philosophy in Drawing Education
Chapter 4: Drawing by Design: Connecting Drawing and Design through
Mathematics
Chapter 5: Drawing as Seeing: Observational Drawing in Art, Science, and
Medicine
Chapter 6: Drawing as Experience and Experiment: Creativity in Art and
Experimental Science
Chapter 7: Drawing as Expression: Self-Knowledge, Healing, and Societal
Concerns
Chapter 8: Languages of Drawing: Semiotics and the Search for Fundamentals
Chapter 9: Toward a Comprehensive 21st Century Philosophy of Drawing
Education
References
Index