Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art.
Description:
The purpose of this study was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an organizing idea for designing a thematic unit with the purpose of introducing elementary students to postmodern art and issues. One hundred and sixty first grade and fourth grade …
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Date:
May 2002
Creator:
Meli, Alisa A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries