Art Education in the Public Schools of the United States: A Symposium Prepared Under the Auspices of the American Committee of the Third International Congress for the Development of Drawing and Art Teaching, London, August, 1908

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James Parton Haney
American art annual (incorporated), 1908 - 432 páginas
 

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Página 271 - An institution to be ranked as a college, must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission, not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.
Página 17 - Any city or town may, and every city and town having more than ten thousand inhabitants, shall annually make provision for giving free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing to persons over fifteen years of age, either in day or evening schools, under the direction of the school committee.
Página 7 - The advancement of the fine arts and of practical science will be readily recognized by you as worthy of the attention of a great and enlightened nation. I have directed that a comprehensive scheme shall be laid before you, having in view the promotion of these objects, towards which I invite your aid and co-operation.
Página 367 - The museum of the future must stand side by side with the library and the laboratory, as a part of the teaching equipment of the college and university, and in the great cities cooperate with the public library as one of the principal agencies for the enlightenment of the people.
Página 312 - Even from the economic side, that education is deficient which leaves one unable to judge of form and color when he is constantly required to use such judgment. This lack of appreciation is responsible for an immense waste of labor, skill and money in the production of useless and ugly things.
Página 8 - Algebra, vocal music, drawing, physiology, and hygiene shall be taught by lectures or otherwise, in all the public schools in which the school committee deem expedient.
Página 1 - ... slates can also be furnished at short notice. Two marked features of his system, features which Walter Smith insisted upon later in this State work, were the use of a geometrical basis for instruction and the teaching of beginners by those not fully trained. Of this he says, in his introduction: Even in private schools where drawing is taught, it is too generally the case that no regard is paid to the geometrical principles on which the art depends. * * * Being ignorant of the certain rules of...
Página 321 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - ... later, in 1904, a second great event, the St. Louis Exposition, commemorating the Louisiana purchase, took place. Again a wonderful advance in the development of art education was seen. The old straight-line work had almost entirely given way to the aesthetic wave of beauty which had swept the country. Many of the effects of this desire of beauty acted to the advantage of the drawing done in the schools. This the exhibition showed in the higher grades, where the models offered were no longer...
Página 308 - Pennsylvania, in the City of Philadelphia, a Museum of Art, in all its branches and technical application, and with a special view to the development of the Art Industries of the State, to provide instruction in Drawing, Painting, Modelling, Designing, et cetera, through practical schools, special libraries, lectures and otherwise.

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