Recommended Resources

Maier Museum of Art volunteers have privileges at Randolph College's Lipscomb Library, where most of the following are available.

I. General survey books

Horst W. Janson, History of Art, 5^th ed., New York: Abrams, 1995.

Carol Strickland, Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern, Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews and McMeel, 1992.

Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 10^th ed., New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

II. Readings on American Art

Matthew Baigell, A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture, New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

Milton Brown, et al., American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography, New York: Abrams, 1988.

Wayne Craven, American Art: History and Culture, Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History Of Art in America, New York: Knopf, 1997.

Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875, New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Barbara Rose, Readings in American Art, 1900-1975, New York: Praeger, 1975.

Ellen M. Schall, John Wilmerding, David M. Sokol, American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting, Lynchburg, Virginia: Maier Museum of Art, 1990.

Joshua Taylor, To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975.

III. Videos

Robert Hughes, American Visions, Vol. 1-8, PBS, 1996

Sister Wendy Beckett, American Collection, PBS, 2001

IV. Other Art and Art History books

H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, 3^rd ed., New York: Abrams, 1986.

John Canaday, Mainstreams of Modern Art, New York: Holt, 1964.

Hershel B. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art, a Source Book by Artists and Critics, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Kenneth Clark, The Nude, A Study in Ideal Form, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Edmund Burke Feldman, Varieties of Visual Experience, New York: Abrams, 1992.

Ernst H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 5^th ed., London: Phaidon, 1977.

Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, 2 vols., New York: Knopf, 1951.

Robert Hughes, Nothing if not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists, New York: Knopf, 1990.

Robert Hughes, Shock of the New: The Hundred-Year History of Modern Art, New York: Knopt, 1981.

Edward Lucie-Smith, Art Now: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism, New York: Morrow, 1981.

Andre Malraux, The Psychology of Art, 3 vols., New York: Pantheon Books, 1950.

James Smith Pierce, From Abacus to Zeus, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1987.

Joshua C. Taylor, Learning to Look, A Handbook for the Visual Arts, 2^nd ed., Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

V. Books and articles on child development, learning theories, and museum education

David Abbey, “Kids, Kulture and Curiosity,” Museum News (March 1968): 30-33.

K. Andrews and C. Asia, “Teenagers' Attitudes about Art Museums,” Curator, no. 23 (1979): 224-232

J.D. Balling and J.H. Falk “A Perspective on Field Trips: Environmental Effects on Learning,” Curator, no. 23 (1980): 229-240.

Nancy Berry and Susan Mayer, eds., Museum Education: History, Theory, and Practice, Reston, VA, The National Art Education Association: 1989).

Bruno Bettelheim, “Children, Curiosity and Museums,” Museum Education Anthology 1973-1983, Washington D.C.: American Education Roundtable, 1984.

M.V. Butler, “What are we Teaching?” Museum News (March 1968): 33-34.

Elliot Eisner, Educating Artistic Vision, New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Edmund B. Feldman, Becoming Human Through Art: Aesthetic Experience in the School, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970.

Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, “How Children Learn.Three Stages of Understanding Art,” Psychology Today, (March 1976): 42-45, 74.

J. Gottfried, “Do Children Learn on School Field Trips?” Curator, no. 23 (1981): 165-174.

Alison Grinder and Sue McCoy, The Good Guide: A Sourcebook for Interpreters, Docents, and Tour Guides, Scottsdale, AZ: Ironwood Publishing, 1985.

A. Hausen, “What is Beyond, or Before, the Lecture Tour? A Study of Aesthetic Modes of Understanding,” Art Education, vol. 3 (1980): 17-18.

Sherman Lee, ed., On Understanding Art Museums, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.

R.A. Matthai and N.E. Deaver, “Child-Centered Learning,” Museum News (March/April 1976): 15-19.

Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Children Are Artists, 2^nd ed., Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963.

Museums for a New Century, The Report of the Commission on Museums for a New Century, Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1984.

N. L. Pielstick and A.B. Woodruff, “Exploratory Behavior and Curiosity in Two Ages and Ability Groups of Children,” Psychological Reports, vol. 14 (1964): 831-834.

D. Reese and E. Moore, “Art Museum and the Public School: An Experiment,” Museum News, no. 40 (1962): 31-33.

To find out more about volunteer opportunities at the Maier Museum of Art, please contact curator of education, Martha Kjeseth Johnson at mjohnson@randolphcollege.edu or 947-8136 extension 3.