Objects of American Art Education: Highlights from the Diana Korzenik Collection - Softcover

Diana Korzenik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873282043 ISBN 13: 9780873282048

Publisher: Huntington Library Press, 2005

Synopsis

This extensively illustrated book explores materials—many of them three-dimensional objects that virtually jump off of the page—used in art teaching from 1770 to 1950. In the course of gathering her collection, Diana Korzenik traced the methods and materials used to teach artists and amateurs to draw and to see the world around them. The illustrations provide an extensive sampling of these objects, depicting drawing books, crayons, promotional booklets, and three-dimensional teaching aids. Stochastic screening, used in the color printing of the book, gives striking resolution and fidelity to the illustrations. The essays provide evidence of the changing interpretations of art making in the period covered by the collection and offer new perspectives on material culture, art and design, education, and American Studies.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"The Diana Korzenik Collection, with its trove of drawing books, cards, and three-dimensional teaching aids from two centuries and longer, is the richest and most extensive archive of its kind. In the course of gathering these materials, Korzenik has traced the changing methods used to teach artists and amateurs to draw and, by extension, to see the world around them."—Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

About the Author

Diana Korzenik, Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art, is the author of Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth-Century American Dream and, with Maurice Brown, Art Making and Education. She amassed her collection of more than 1,500 artifacts, books, and printed ephemera over the course of several decades. In 1997, she donated this collection to the Huntington Library.
Cathy Cherbosque is Curator of Historical Prints and Ephemera at the Huntington Library. She is a doctoral student in American History at Claremont Graduate University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Huntington Library Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0873282043
• ISBN 13: 9780873282048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48