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Traiter de recherche création en art
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2007; US$ 31.50Cet ouvrage, traitant de méthodologie de recherche, tend à préciser la nature et les enjeux de la recherche-création ainsi que le territoire qu'elle occupe en recherche systématique. more...
Creative Colleges
SuperCollege, LLC 2008; US$ 15.95Written exclusively for college-bound students interested in the creative arts, this updated guide addresses the unique concerns of students pursuing an education in acting, art, dance, music, and writing. Everything students need to know about deciding which type of program is the best for them is included?from taking standardized tests and filing... more...
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Collage and Altered Art
Wiley 2009; US$ 21.99Collage and altered art pull together elements from a wide variety of crafts to create one-of-a-kind pieces that truly reflect your individual style. This photo-intensive guide walks you through all the latest techniques, from aging paper and photos to working with image transfers, rubber stamps, fabrics, and more. Plus, you'll learn how to source... more...
Teaching Creativity
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00This study is concerned with creativity in education – especially in arts education (broadly conceived to include the visual arts, music, and creative writing). It takes as its starting point Nietzsche’s view that works of art do not appear “as if by magic”. Using insights from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, the... more...
Aa is for Aesthetic
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic. more...
The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00This volume emphasizes the necessity for arts teachers to nurture the personal development of their students by expanding their artistic understanding and creativity. In aiming to provide a broader understanding for the effective teaching of the arts, the author provides powerful reasons for seeing the arts as agents of learning, understanding... more...
Transforming Education Through the Arts
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 46.95This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of... more...
Against the Flow
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 59.95At once provocative and inspiring , Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the... more...
The Symbolic Order
Taylor and Francis 1989; US$ 61.95Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. more...
The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts
Helicon Publishing 2008; US$ 29.66Celebration of the achievements of human creativity through time. more...









