This book began with the idea that it would describe a set of arts-based service-learning courses developed and implemented during the unique multi-year project, Linking Service-Learning and the Visual Arts. These courses, in photography, graphic design, ceramics, and art education were to be offered as models, perhaps, or better yet, as…

A how-to-do-it article describing how to mount pictures using acrylic polymer. (HB)

Commissioner of Education of New York State cites the place of the visual arts in preparing students to live a creative, sensitive, humane life.'' (Author/SP)

Through his experiences with tempera painting, the youthful person will become aware that art expression involves a combining of factors of the original ingredients into new modes of expression. (Author)

Author discusses the work of Edward Hopper, his painting technique, and the feelings evoked by the artist. Included are five examples of his work in black and white. (NP)

A brief look at how to plan graphics, camera angles, lighting and other set elements for visual effect. (AK)

The need for dedicated art teachers to bring students to a deep awareness of the aesthetic qualities of good art is discussed. (CK)

Two earlier holocultural studies showed that institutionalized artistic traditions with societies worldwide are complex to the degree that parents are rejecting toward their children. The present intracultural study within the U.S., however, indicated that preference for complex works of art is associated with parental warmth and acceptance.…

Discusses murals done by Egyptian children. Differences in the drawing styles of American and Egyptian children are discussed. The author states that the significance of the wall drawings is that they represent a rich social setting in which children learn to produce art. (AM)

Describes how teaching secondary art students to perceive negative shape improved their drawings of a bicycle, a visually complex mechanical structure. Concentrating on negative shape forces students to work with the relationships between shapes and their relative sizes. (AM)

Analyzes visual materials lending themselves to reproduction on microfiche according to four different types of projects presently available, and makes suggestions for future micropublication projects. (Author)

Responds to Fredric Jameson's 1987 article "Reading without Interpretation: Postmodernism and the Videotext." Argues that video art encourages self-analysis and allows for a critical examination of culture and that video art is polemical in that it creates strategies whereby the viewers are disoriented and required to think about their…