Practical and academic, the interrelationship of the visual and performing arts opens unique frontiers to aesthetic pioneers. Divergent in aim from the historic search for similar tonalities between the Synchronists and Stravinsky or atonal musicians of the 1950s-70s and minimalist painters and sculptors, the present use of the visual arts as a…

Explores whether reading skills can be enhanced by visual arts instruction. Provides results from two meta-analyses on: (1) whether art instruction improves reading on its own; and (2) whether teaching reading through art is more effective than teaching reading alone. (CMK)