What Art Is Online

Supplement to What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000)
by Louis Torres & Michelle Marder Kamhi

Chapter 15 - Public Implications

TEACHING THE ARTS TO CHILDREN

Excerpt from What Art Is (p. 297)

[T]he public arena in which Ayn Rand's theory of art should stimulate the most profound debate and concern is the educational system, for here the irrationality rampant in the contemporary artworld works its destructive influence on a captive audience of young minds in their most formative stage.

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Articles

• Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies' (Aristos, January 2004)
• Arts Education Policy Review (Aristos, Notes & Comments, May 2003)
• Where's the Art in Today's Art Education? (November 2002)

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