History of Western Art Education

Author: Arthur Efland (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: In 1562, the Florentine artist and theorist Vasari founded the Academy of Arts, marking the beginning of modern art education in academies. However, visual arts were excluded from universities until the 19th century, when John Ruskin began delivering art lectures and establishing studios at Oxford University to enhance the artistic appreciation of its students, gradually changing this situation. Today, whether in Europe, America, or China, people have finally reached a consensus—art education should focus on works of art in the historical sense of art history and the related disciplinary knowledge. This is a specialized book discussing the development and evolution of visual art education in schools in Europe and America, particularly the United States, covering both specialized art education and general school art education. In the 1960s, school art education in the United States began to have an international impact, and by the 1980s, it formed the "Discipline-Based Art Education" (DBAE) theory, which has had a broad influence on the field of art education in China. It is very necessary to review the origins of this theory.