On the Educational Significance and Value of Visual Arts

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
D. Carr
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Abstract:There can be little doubt, from the enduring contemporary popularity of art galleries and museums, that such visual arts as painting and sculpture are sources of perceptual and emotional satisfaction and pleasure to a large viewing public. Still, given the contemporary unfamiliarity of much of the subject matter of past art and the absence of any clearly comprehensible subject matter in much modern (abstract and other) art, it may be less clear what younger or older viewers might come to learn from their viewing of much or any educational value. This paper first offers an overview of the complex history of development of visual art from past to present in light of the shifting standards of artistic and aesthetic evaluation that have variously guided such development. However, it is argued that, while any educated appreciation of visual art cannot be had without some understanding of such history, it also requires a clear grasp of conceptual relations between the artistic and the aesthetic and of the significant interplay of diverse criteria of evaluation in any and all serious artworks past or present. Given this, visual arts may provide a unique route to educational understanding of the broadest liberal character.
论视觉艺术的教育意义与价值
摘要:毫无疑问,从美术馆和博物馆在当代的持久流行来看,绘画和雕塑等视觉艺术是广大观众感知和情感满足和愉悦的源泉。尽管如此,考虑到当代人对过去艺术的许多主题都不熟悉,而且在许多现代(抽象和其他)艺术中也没有任何清晰易懂的主题,年轻或年长的观众可能会从他们对许多或任何教育价值的观看中学到什么,这可能就不太清楚了。本文首先概述了视觉艺术从过去到现在的复杂发展史,因为艺术和美学评价标准的变化对视觉艺术的发展起到了不同的指导作用。然而,有人认为,尽管对视觉艺术的任何有教育意义的欣赏都离不开对这一历史的了解,但它也需要清楚地把握艺术与美学之间的概念关系,以及过去或现在任何和所有严肃的艺术品中不同评价标准的重要相互作用。鉴于此,视觉艺术可能为教育理解最广泛的自由主义特征提供了一条独特的途径。
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JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION
JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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0.50
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education, to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels; to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics; and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians.
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