Using extensive color illustrations sampling the Diana Korzenik Collection of American Art Education, this book explores the array of interests that inspired the formation of the collection. The essays provide evidence of the changing interpretations of art making and offer new perspectives to those interested in material culture, art and design, education and business history, and American Studies.
This extensively illustrated book explores materials--many of them three-dimensional objects that virtually jump off of the page--used in art teaching from 1770 to 1950. In the course of gathering her collection, Diana Korzenik traced the methods and materials used to teach artists and amateurs to draw and to see the world around them. The illustrations provide an extensive sampling of these objects, depicting drawing books, crayons, promotional booklets, and three-dimensional teaching aids. Stochastic screening, used in the color printing of the book, gives striking resolution and fidelity to the illustrations. The essays provide evidence of the changing interpretations of art making in the period covered by the collection and offer new perspectives on material culture, art and design, education, and American Studies.
Diana Korzenik, Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art, is the author of Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth-Century American Dream and, with Maurice Brown, Art Making and Education. She amassed her collection of more than 1,500 artifacts, books, and printed ephemera over the course of several decades. In 1997, she donated this collection to the Huntington Library. Cathy Cherbosque is Curator of Historical Prints and Ephemera at the Huntington Library. She is a doctoral student in American History at Claremont Graduate University.
