Professional and recreational books about art and art education, recommended by art educators. Send your reviews of these books and articles or suggestions for other reading to the webmaster.
The Arts & the Creation of Mind Elliot Eisner
Assessment in Art Education by Donna Kay Beattie
Creating Minds:an Anatomy of Creativity Seen through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham & Gandhi by Howard Gardner
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Books by David Warlick (2010 Keynote at AEI Fall Conference)
Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains LouAnne Johnson
Engaging Learners Through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education Katherine M. Douglas and Diane B. Jaquith.
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The Laughing Classroom: Everyone's Guide to Teaching With Humor and Play by Diana Loomans, Karen J. Kolberg, Martha Weston, Diane Loomans
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Sir Kenneth Robinson
Art and Visual Perception Rudolf Arnheim
Analyzing Children’s Art Rhoda Kellogg
Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman
A Documentary History of Art (2 volumes) by Elizabeth G. Holt
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
The Documents of 20th‐Century Art Robert Motherwell, General Editor
The Journal of Eugène Delacroix Walter Pach, translator
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Read the text online!
Benvenuto Cellini: Autobiography George Bull, translator
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling Ross King
The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by R FREEDMAN - 2006
Poetry Board by Susan Noonan. Click on image to take a closer look.
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