Mission Impossible: Turning Students on to Modern Art.

Jensen, Heather

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Publication Date: 1998

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Mission Impossible: Turning Students on to Modern Art.

Jensen, Heather

Interdisciplinary Humanities, v15 n1 p101-10 Spr 1998

Addresses the reasons why students resist learning about modern art within humanities courses. Provides strategies for encouraging students to appreciate and critique modern art, such as using comic strips to illuminate beliefs about modern art, studying the theory and practice of a particular artist, or utilizing group critiques of an artwork. (CMK)

Descriptors: Art, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Higher Education, Humanities, Modern History, Relevance (Education), Social Influences, Student Interests, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods

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Language: English

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