List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface: Toward a Renaissance in Drawing Education
Chapter 1: Introduction: Making the Case for Learning to Draw in Changing Times
Chapter 2: Beginnings: Drawing as an Innate Human Capacity and a Matter of the Mind
Chapter 3: What’s in a Name? The Uses of Philosophy in Drawing Education
Chapter 4: Drawing by Design: Connecting Drawing and Design through Mathematics
Chapter 5: Drawing as Seeing: Observational Drawing in Art, Science, and Medicine
Chapter 6: Drawing as Experience and Experiment: Creativity in Art and Experimental Science
Chapter 7: Drawing as Expression: Self-Knowledge, Healing, and Societal Concerns
Chapter 8: Languages of Drawing: Semiotics and the Search for Fundamentals
Chapter 9: Toward a Comprehensive 21st Century Philosophy of Drawing Education
References
Index
Seymour Simmons III is a Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Winthrop University, USA.
"The drawing activity (and its cousins: sketching, doodling,
painting, design, calligraphy, sculpting) can be traced back in
time at least to early cave paintings more than 30,000 years ago,
or even to rock art hundreds of thousands of years ago. Drawing is
at the birth of writing and the archiving of ideas, knowledge,
giving us a more powerful means to extend our cognitive horizons
than the mere oral traditions. Seymour Simmons brings back to the
centre this fundamental activity necessary to each human's learning
and development: each of us experiments and flexes our brain, in
infancy, to learn about representing shapes, the world, and imagine
and set theatrical scenarios, in large part through drawing.
Simmons sets the stage for the next paradigm shift in education and
beyond, in the current era dominated by computing and the
scientific method: that of unleashing our creativity with the use
of our body-mind through the various dimensions offered by
drawing."-- Frederic Fol Leymarie, Professor of Arts Computing,
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK"Seymour Simmons' book is a
tour de force, covering the panorama of issues in drawing, the
arts, education, philosophy-- indeed, what makes for a full life.
The book may well be the best synthesis of Project Zero's
contributions to artistic education and artistic knowledge."--
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and
Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA; Senior
Director, Harvard Project Zero, and Ellen Winner, Professor of
Psychology Emerita, Boston College, USA; Senior Research Associate,
Harvard Project Zero
"The drawing activity (and its cousins: sketching, doodling,
painting, design, calligraphy, sculpting) can be traced back in
time at least to early cave paintings more than 30,000 years ago,
or even to rock art hundreds of thousands of years ago. Drawing is
at the birth of writing and the archiving of ideas, knowledge,
giving us a more powerful means to extend our cognitive horizons
than the mere oral traditions. Seymour Simmons brings back to the
centre this fundamental activity necessary to each human's learning
and development: each of us experiments and flexes our brain, in
infancy, to learn about representing shapes, the world, and imagine
and set theatrical scenarios, in large part through drawing.
Simmons sets the stage for the next paradigm shift in education and
beyond, in the current era dominated by computing and the
scientific method: that of unleashing our creativity with the use
of our body-mind through the various dimensions offered by
drawing."-- Frederic Fol Leymarie, Professor of Arts Computing,
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK"Seymour Simmons' book is a
tour de force, covering the panorama of issues in drawing, the
arts, education, philosophy-- indeed, what makes for a full life.
The book may well be the best synthesis of Project Zero's
contributions to artistic education and artistic knowledge."--
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and
Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA; Senior
Director, Harvard Project Zero, and Ellen Winner, Professor of
Psychology Emerita, Boston College, USA; Senior Research Associate,
Harvard Project Zero
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