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Art work was advocated by Rembrandt Peale of Philadelphia in 1840 as a form of graphics-the art of accurate delineation, a system of school exercises for the education of the eye and the training of the hand, an auxiliary to writing, geography, and drawing.
Art Education in the United States refers to the practice of teaching art in American public schools. Before the democratization of education, particularly as promoted by educational philosopher John Dewey, apprenticeship was the traditional route for attaining an education in art.
1636 — Harvard founded. It was the first college in the colonies that were to become the United States. It roughly followed the model of Cambridge and Oxford in England (two of the world’s oldest institutions), as the Massachusetts Bay Colony had many residents who attended those schools.
W. G. Whitford, Brief History of Art Education in the United States, The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Oct., 1923), pp. 109-115
ported from England was adopted, first in New England and eventually throughout industrial regions of the country. Linkage between art education and industrial training was, of course, not uniquely American, but it may have influenced art education in the United States in ways that were distinctive to this emerging industrial economy. It
An Uneasy Guest recounts how art education has been conceptualized, justified, and taught in the United States in the face of the persistent marginalization of the arts in the American education system. The teaching of art has often been justified in terms of some non-art outcome.
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art education’s history told stories that positioned establishment and development of formal, school-based art education as actions in national economic interests.
