Format:
xvii, 217 pages
,
illustrations (some color)
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0915924943
Content:
Making the connection between writing and visual art can activate what William Burroughs called "The Third Mind"--from the confluence of the two art forms, something new, or other, emerges. This new anthology of essays about the challenges and rewards of uniting art and writing not only demonstrates how visual art can spark wonderful student writing, but goes much further, offering novel insights into the creative process. The result, editors Foster and Prevallet demonstrate, produces a new spirit of collaboration, one which in turn opens up dramatic possibilities for teachers, students, and the classroom dynamic. The 20 essays in Third Mind--by teachers, poets, writers, artists, and museum educators from across the country--offer ideas on a diverse array of artistic disciplines, among them, quilt-making, Chinese calligraphy, abstract painting, and photographic portraiture. Third Mind also features 20 pages of gorgeous color plates, as well as an inspiring bibliography of works on visual art and creative writing
Note:
Ekphrastic poetry : entering and giving voice to works of art / Terry Blackhawk -- Unfamiliar ground : inspiring students with abstraction / Gary Hawkins -- The train in the chimney : teaching writing by discovering art / Barbara Flug Colin -- Art is for everybody / bell hooks -- Our story quilt : memories in words and fabric / Susan Karwoska -- Igniting the inward prodigy / Will Alexander -- Investigating the process of portraiture / Ezra Shales -- The image-making workshop : an introduction to creative bookmaking / Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon -- Gestural abstraction and the art of Cy Twombly / Holly Masturzo -- Text-art exercises for resistant students / Lee Upton -- Drawing a line : making the connection between literature and art / Pamela Freeze Beal -- The world at the tip of a brush : teaching Chinese poetry, painting, and calligraphy / Beth Zasloff -- The how and the why : John Taggart's "Slow song for Mark Rothko" / Marjorie Welish -- Going on our nerve : collaborations between poets and visual artists / Anne Waldman -- Conversations beyond the gallery : teaching art and expository writing / Scott Herndon & Kristin Dombek -- The verbal-visual nexus : artists-in-residence teach writing / Tina Rotenberg -- Ut pictura poesis : an introduction to surrealism / Michael Theune -- Her umbrella was made of leaves : teaching photography and writing / John & Julie Moulds Rybicki -- Tim Rollins + K.O.S. : the Amerika series / Michele Wallace -- Writing programs in art museums / Kathy Walsh-Piper
Language:
English
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