Teaching Contemporary Art With Young People – Themes in Art for K–12 Classrooms

Teaching Contemporary Art with Young PeopleThemes in Art for K-12 Classrooms\nAuthor(s): Julia Marshall, Connie Stewart, Anne Thulson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807765746, 978-0807765746\nSynopsis\nThis practical resource will help educators teach about current art and integrate its philosophy and methods into the K-12 classroom. The authors provide a framework that looks at art through the lens of nine themes-everyday life, work, power, earth, space and place, self and others, change and time, inheritance, and visual culture-highlighting the conceptual aspects of art and connecting disparate forms of expression. They also provide guidelines and examples for how to use contemporary art to change the dynamics of a classroom, apply inventive non-linear lenses to topics, broaden and update the art \""canon,\"" and spur creative and critical thinking. Young people will find the selected artwork acces.