Author Description

"At a time when education is increasingly being organized in functional terms, this volume stresses the centrality of the imagination in the visual arts. Illustrated in colour, with over forty examples of children's work, Rod Taylor draws on case-study material as well as the testimonies of students, teachers and artists and embraces both the intuitive and expressive. He also examines the capacity of young people of all ages to relate and identify with artists, crafts-people and designers through a conscious engagement in related activities. The book is particularly timely addressing, as it does, issues and approaches central to the current debate about the form Art should take in the National Curriculum from September 1992"--Jacket.