Travel Through Time: Art History and Art Education: Art History and Art Education

Author: Chang Ningsheng
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: When an artist's creative practice shifts from a state devoid of historical awareness to consciously pursuing novelty and change forward in accordance with a priori developmental models, the continuous advancement of art will inevitably lead it to a historical endpoint. This book is a collection of the author's recent research in the fields of art history and art education. It includes four aspects: 1. The disciplinary development and construction of art history; 2. Research on Western art history; 3. Research on Chinese and foreign art education; 4. Contemporary art and artist studies. The author examines and analyzes the current state and existing problems of the discipline of art history and Chinese and foreign art education from different historical and cultural perspectives, and offers new interpretations and evaluations of important artists and artistic phenomena in Chinese and foreign art history.