Using computers to produce art began with scientists, mathematicians, and individuals with strong technical backgrounds who used the graphic material as visualizations of data in technical fields. People are using computer art in advertising, as well as in painting; sculpture; music; textile, product, industrial, and interior design; architecture;…

As part of a continuing series, this fourth volume of "Illustrators of Children's Books" concentrates on the decade from 1967 to 1976. Four essays in Part One of the book discuss the state of the illustrator's art ("Book Illustration"), European picture books in the decade ("A View from the Island"), the Japanese picture book ("Where the Old Meets…

Author described the life and times of the San Francisco Art Institute and reviewed the forces that made San Francisco a city of more than ordinary awareness of the arts in its civic and civil existence. (Editor/RK)

Thomas Cole's painting, "The Architect's Dream," is used to illustrate a middle school lesson on how artists interpret cityscapes. Includes suggestions for classroom activities. (AEM)

Presents an annotated filmography of films and videotapes that provide parents and teachers with an understanding of the importance of "process" in providing the experiences needed to foster children's creative development in the visual arts. (Author/BB)

Recently an outstanding cross-section of works from Van Gogh's Arlesian period was on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His works are discussed; some samples are included. (RM)

Maintains that an anthropological perspective offers exciting possibilities for developing intercultural understanding in the visual arts. Examines the problems encountered when applying this perspective to the visual art of radically different cultures. (JDH)

A Saturday visual arts enrichment program employs a differentiated staffing pattern using a master teacher as mentor for both high school students and teacher trainees. (CL)

By participating in this art activity, students in grades seven-nine learn about one of the first American modernists, Stuart Davis, and come to understand how simplification and abstraction developed in American art. (RM)

Examines the interdependence of language and image in a poster series by Shosaku Arakawa and relates the displacement of writing from the book page to his canvases or posters to theories of performative language to show that his work is itself performance. (DF)

Marcel Duchamp will probably never be forgotten by art historians of the future, said the author, and he reflected on the achievements of the artist as well as Duchamp's increasing fame. (Author/RK)

Reviews the interrelationships between concrete poetry, industrial design and the plastic arts over the past fifteen years to illustrate the sort of team work necessary if poets are to have an active voice in our contemporary society. (Author/HOD)

For more than two thousand years, the painted image has been critical to the culture of the West. At the beginning of the 21st century, however, painting sits quietly in a small corner and is, for the most part, ignored. Museums increasingly devote their contemporary exhibition space to "installation art," as opposed to discrete objects…

Discusses the more mechanical aspects of making photographs as bridges to creative photography. (GB)

Article explains the design patterns found in nature that stimulate creative activity. In this case children are guided in creating center patterns. (RK)