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Two forms of Art History Education appripriate for the classroom?
Replicative and Generative
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Replicative Art History
Rediscovery of accepted knowledge
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Generative Art History
Inquiry that's never been understaken before
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Two Replicative classroom activities
Comparing/Contrasting artworks by stylistic characteristics
Sorting artworks by movements
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Educational Perks of Generative Art History Education
-Individual thinking and disagreement are important to art historians
-Promotes higher order thinking skills
-Increases student motivation
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What are the 3 Types of Inquiry an Art Historian engages in
establishing facts, interpreting meaning, and accounting for change.
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Establishing Facts
How art was made, what subjects are depicted, how the work is formally organized, who made the work, for whom, when, and where. And artwork either is or isn’t.
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3 Subcategories of Establishing Fact
Imagined restoration, description, and attribution.
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Imagined Restoration
How the pices looked when first produced
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Description
Examining findings after examining work in great detail
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Attribution
Process of examining evidence in and outsidethe work that leads to a conclusion about who produced when, for whom, when,and where.
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