There are numerous paintings expressing both the glory and horror of war. These pictures are a powerful medium in peace education. In this article, the author focuses on a symbol of Hiroshima called the Genbaku Dome, a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site. She believes that images of the…

A picture is a patchwork of color laid out in a private space in which lie flat imitations of life. Such a patchwork constitutes a make-believe visual field. The author rolls out this suggestion under the following headings: Intention, Form and Content, Ontology, Picture Space, Make-believe, Photography, and Resemblance. This commentary focuses on…

A university English instructor, frustrated at being unable to stimulate his students to construe the sense of poems and to limit their strong subjectivity, tried using extracurricular reading as a spur toward a more honest and attentive interpretation of poetry. His experiment produced successful and interesting results. (RK)

Art educators have acknowledged for a long time the importance of the study of images and visual elements in the lives of children and the field of art education. This is even more evident today as the discipline moves to embrace notions of "visual culture," which emphasize exploring and studying all the things that visibly shape lives. In spite…

Contends that everyone must learn to read images because our culture is increasingly represented and perceived in visual terms. (Author/RK)

Dispells various misconceptions underlying both theory and practice of teaching religion through art, while pointing out substantial reasons why such teaching should be viewed affirmatively. (Author/RK)

This paper explores the view that poetry is a cognitive activity whose object of knowing is our affective life. It is argued that the devices used in poetry, being modifications of ordinary language, determine the sorts of things knowable. Three devices are discussed in detail: imagery, heightened language, and ambiguity. (Author/SJL)

This paper deals with the main theses of Gombrich's theory of pictorial representation as they pertain to the understanding of representational artworks and children's drawing. It is argued that the current linguistic-cognitive model of representation adopted from Goodman's theory provides an understanding of images and children's drawing in art…

The relationship of film meaning to film criticism and film education is examined. Film scholarship needs to be more self-conscious in regard to the language used and to its value assumptions. (RM)

The authors review a body of theory and accumulating evidence which suggests that critical study of the arts facilitates the development of cognitive skills, including those essential to reading. (Author/SJL)