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Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives

Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives

Author(s): Masami Toku

Edition: 3

Copyright: 2023

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Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives develops students’ appreciation of art including observation, articulation, and critical thinking skills through visual arts. Additionally, this text provides student opportunities to develop understanding of human creativity, arts, values, and reasoning. Visual lectures online, related readings in the text and website are included and focus on visual thinking strategy as a communicative tool.

Each chapter of Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives includes:

  • Chapter Objectives
  • Visuals Lists
  • Key Concepts (Vocabulary & definitions)
  • A Review Quiz
  • Exercises

Introduction: How to Use this Workbook with the Website

Part I: Visual Culture and Literacy
Chapter 1: Philosophy of Creating & Teaching Art—What Is Art and What Is It For?
Chapter 2: Cultural Diversity in Art: Who Makes Art, How, and Why?
Chapter 3: Artistic and Aesthetic Development through Visual Art

Part II: Artistic Perception—Elements of Art and Principles of Design
Chapter 4: Line, Shape and Form (Mass)
Chapter 5: Space
Chapter 6: Light and Color
Chapter 7: Other Elements of Art: Texture, Pattern, Time and Motion
Chapter 8: Principles of Design

Part III: Creative Expression—Diverse Media and Processes
Chapter 9: 2D Media
Chapter 10: 3D Media 
Chapter 11: 4D Media (Four Dimensional Time Arts—Photography, Video, Films, etc.)
Chapter 12: Emerging Art (Graphic Art, Electronic Art, Interactive Art, etc.)

Part IV: Cultural & Historical Contexts in the Visual Art World
Chapter 14: Classical to Renaissance: Mainstream Art History in the Western World
Chapter 15: Modernism and Post-Modernism in the Visual Art World (High VS Low Art) 
Chapter 17: Western World

Part V: Aesthetic Valuing in the Visual World
Chapter 16: Beyond 21st Century: Where are we going? 
Chapter 18: Modernism vs. Postmodernism in Visual Art World (High vs. Low Art) 
Chapter 19: Women Artists and Their Art in the Changing Art World 
Chapter 20: The Visual Art World Now: Where are we going? 

Masami Toku
Masami Toku is from the island of Amami Oshima, Japan. She is a Japanese scholar and professor of Art Education at California State University, Chico. She is the director of the USSEA (United States Society for Education through Art) Child Art Exchange program and also the general director of the international touring exhibition projects Girls’ Power! Shojo Manga! (2005 till now) and World of Shojo Manga: Mirrors of Girls’ Desires (2013–2017). She earned a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA in Art Education/Minor Museum Study and Ed.D./Ph.D. in Art Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Toku’s research interests are cross-cultural study of children’s artistic and aesthetic development in their pictorial worlds and how visual popular culture influences children’s visual literacy. Dr. Toku received the 2008 USSEA International Ziegfeld Award, which is given to the outstanding international scholar in art education in the United States. She also received CSUChico’s Outstanding Teacher’s Award (2010–2011). She works internationally as an educator, publisher, researcher, and speaker. She has published numerous articles, book reviews, book chapters, and books in English and in Japanese. Her recent publications are, Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives (2011 and 2013), International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture (2015) and an upcoming collaborative research book, Manga!: Visual Pop-culture in ARTS Education (2020).

Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives develops students’ appreciation of art including observation, articulation, and critical thinking skills through visual arts. Additionally, this text provides student opportunities to develop understanding of human creativity, arts, values, and reasoning. Visual lectures online, related readings in the text and website are included and focus on visual thinking strategy as a communicative tool.

Each chapter of Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives includes:

  • Chapter Objectives
  • Visuals Lists
  • Key Concepts (Vocabulary & definitions)
  • A Review Quiz
  • Exercises

Introduction: How to Use this Workbook with the Website

Part I: Visual Culture and Literacy
Chapter 1: Philosophy of Creating & Teaching Art—What Is Art and What Is It For?
Chapter 2: Cultural Diversity in Art: Who Makes Art, How, and Why?
Chapter 3: Artistic and Aesthetic Development through Visual Art

Part II: Artistic Perception—Elements of Art and Principles of Design
Chapter 4: Line, Shape and Form (Mass)
Chapter 5: Space
Chapter 6: Light and Color
Chapter 7: Other Elements of Art: Texture, Pattern, Time and Motion
Chapter 8: Principles of Design

Part III: Creative Expression—Diverse Media and Processes
Chapter 9: 2D Media
Chapter 10: 3D Media 
Chapter 11: 4D Media (Four Dimensional Time Arts—Photography, Video, Films, etc.)
Chapter 12: Emerging Art (Graphic Art, Electronic Art, Interactive Art, etc.)

Part IV: Cultural & Historical Contexts in the Visual Art World
Chapter 14: Classical to Renaissance: Mainstream Art History in the Western World
Chapter 15: Modernism and Post-Modernism in the Visual Art World (High VS Low Art) 
Chapter 17: Western World

Part V: Aesthetic Valuing in the Visual World
Chapter 16: Beyond 21st Century: Where are we going? 
Chapter 18: Modernism vs. Postmodernism in Visual Art World (High vs. Low Art) 
Chapter 19: Women Artists and Their Art in the Changing Art World 
Chapter 20: The Visual Art World Now: Where are we going? 

Masami Toku
Masami Toku
Masami Toku is from the island of Amami Oshima, Japan. She is a Japanese scholar and professor of Art Education at California State University, Chico. She is the director of the USSEA (United States Society for Education through Art) Child Art Exchange program and also the general director of the international touring exhibition projects Girls’ Power! Shojo Manga! (2005 till now) and World of Shojo Manga: Mirrors of Girls’ Desires (2013–2017). She earned a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA in Art Education/Minor Museum Study and Ed.D./Ph.D. in Art Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Toku’s research interests are cross-cultural study of children’s artistic and aesthetic development in their pictorial worlds and how visual popular culture influences children’s visual literacy. Dr. Toku received the 2008 USSEA International Ziegfeld Award, which is given to the outstanding international scholar in art education in the United States. She also received CSUChico’s Outstanding Teacher’s Award (2010–2011). She works internationally as an educator, publisher, researcher, and speaker. She has published numerous articles, book reviews, book chapters, and books in English and in Japanese. Her recent publications are, Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives (2011 and 2013), International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture (2015) and an upcoming collaborative research book, Manga!: Visual Pop-culture in ARTS Education (2020).