Easy ways to infuse art into classroom learning One of the most popular books in the Jossey-Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 1
In September 1968, the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale opened its doors on the beach where Las Olas Boulevard meets the Atlantic Ocean. With an enrollment of 55 students, the school offered three dip
In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art. Their findings, written in highly accessible prose, are surpri
Fourteen American and British practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, landscape architects, and educators, as well as one arts group, contribute 16 theoretical and practi
What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need the funding, approval, and friendship of patrons whe
Art Education in a Climate of Reform first analyzes the changes in the social context of art and how these changes have impacted K-12 and university-level education. These changes, plus the current c
In this time of eliminating art programs in public schools across the country, the late Dorn (professor emeritus, art education, Florida State U.) and Orr (art education, Florida State U.) write to af
A contemporary art expert demystifies the process of finding, appreciating, and collecting contemporary art on any budget. Contemporary art is often misunderstood as intentionally controversial, obnox
For more than 30 years, Hislop's mammoth Art Sales Index has been the essential guide for any art buyer looking to make an informed purchase. Now, Hislop's Official International Price Guide to Fine A
For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in “blockbuster” exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in th
Ready to upgrade your artwork from framed Monet posters but intimidated by what you see in galleries?In The Intrepid Art Collector, Lisa Hunter shows you how to start a fine art collection without spe
Today exhibitions have to compete in an increasingly sophisticated leisure market. Consequently, the way in which the contemporary exhibition is designed is changing fast; previously aloof cultural i
Manifesta, the first itinerant European Biennial for Contemporary Art, emerged in a post-wall, globalizing Europe. Founded in 1993, it organized traveling exhibitions aim
The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice focuses on the forest as a theme in contemporary art. The full-color catalog accompanies one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new Nasher Museum of Art at
Tracking provenance--finding the history and movement of art and cultural property--must be international, because works move across borders. Museum professionals from the US and eastern and western E
By juxtaposing issues and problems, Donald Preziosi's latest collection of essays, In the Aftermath of Art, opens up multiple interpretive possibilities by bringing to the surface hidden resonances in
