Artworks for Elementary Teachers.

Subtitled, Developing Artistic and Perceptual Awareness, this is the revised seventh edition of a textbook developed for college or university methods courses. In recent years, textbooks of this type have begun to de-emphasize artmaking activities, adding content that focuses on responding to artworks and learning about art history. This is one of the publications that has made such a transition. Emphasis is given to the purposes of art in culture. While designed primarily as a one semester course for nonart majors who might be given art teaching responsibilities, much in this book would serve as a resource of ideas and teaching strategies for elementary art specialists. While devoting more text and image to art criticism, aesthetics and art history, art production also receives attention, with emphasis on perceiving and thinking skills ... and relationships to reproductions of art masterworks. The many black-and-white illustrations are complemented by a center section featuring thirty-three masterworks in full color.