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Art Matters: A Contemporary Approach to Art Appreciation

Pamela Gordon

Winner of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association's Textbook Excellence "Texty" Award

Make your Art Appreciation course as inspiring as the rich world of art that it covers. Art Matters enables students to experience art actively and meaningfully, weaving together innovative pedagogy and compelling stories about a wide assortment of artworks and artists to show students that art is everywhere, art is vibrant, and art matters.

Art Matters presents a contemporary approach to art appreciation, offering a compelling narrative, a wide range of works created by numerous artists from around the world, and an active and meaningful learning experience. Through stories, examples, thoughtful pedagogy, and in-depth discussions of process and history, Art Matters motivates students to experience art actively and meaningfully. By asking questions and exposing students to different viewpoints and ideas, the author gives them the tools to speak, write, think critically, and form conclusions about what they see in familiar and unfamiliar works.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 13rd, 2023
  • Pages: 672
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 10.50in - 8.80in - 1.70in - 4.35lb
  • EAN: 9780197620649
  • Categories: Study & TeachingGeneral

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About the Author

Pamela Gordon has been teaching at Connecticut State Community College (formerly Norwalk Community College) since 2009. At CT State, Pam offers two classes: Art Appreciation and The Creative Voice (an interdisciplinary class in which students explore their own creative processes).

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Praise for this book

"[Art Matters] is thorough, interactive, and forward-thinking - meaning it is very much moving toward the global approach to art appreciation that so many institutions strive for. . . . The "Practice Art Matters" [activities] I believe reach a broad range of students, and should make them think practically and maybe emotionally about some works of art. In a course with an overwhelming number of nonmajors, this type of info and approach is critical."

- Alice Jackson, University of Alabama at Birmingham

"[Art Matters] really connects students to the importance of art and helps them appreciate the way art reflects its time and culture. Starting with the controversy of Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial [in Chapter 1] really intrigues all of the students and sets them up for understanding different points of view with art right away."

- Julie Sawyer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell