Aesthetic experience and the construction of meanings

Journal of Aesthetic Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 24-37

  Parsons, Michael ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61149595578     PISSN: 00218510     EISSN: 15437809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3333755     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Ralph Smith, Excellence II: The Continuing Quest in Art Education (Reston, Va. : The National Art Education Association, 1995), 57, This is a relatively current and comprehensive summary of his views on the topic of this essay.
2. See Michael Parsons, How We Understand Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 83.
3. Rudolph Amheim, Art and Visual Perception (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954).
4. Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1976).
5. Smith, Excellence II, 92.
6. The issue is important because it bears on the current, perennial debate about whether art education has cognitive or other consequences and whether these should be taken into account by art education. See Elliott Eisner, "Does Experience in the Arts Boost Academic Performance?" Art Education 51, no. 1 (January 1998): 7-15.