Product Description: Discusses what is involved in "making art". (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The study of artist education includes examining how historical and environmental factors affect the way artists receive their training. This collection of essays published by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) brings the role of history back into exploring how young people began and developed as artists in the nineteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains why there was a great interest in learning to draw in nineteenth century America, traces the education of an individual engraver, and argues that class lines affected art instruction

Product Description: Objects of American Art Education explores the array of interests that inspired Diana Korzenik to form a collection of art-teaching materials dating from 1770 to 1950-the richest and most extensive archive of its kind. In the course of gathering these materials Korzenik traced the methods and materials used to teach artists and amateurs to draw and to see the world around them...read more