PETER SMITH is Coordinator of Art Education/Art Therapy at the University of New Mexico. He has exhibited his art work in many parts of the United States and is a familiar name in art education journal literature with more than thirty major articles. His 25 year background in public school teaching serves him well as a spokesman of institutional art education.

• IntroductionThe Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in AmericaThe Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth CenturyGermanic InfluencesFranz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical KnowledgeAmerican Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture StudyAmerican Women in Visual Arts Education: Outstanding Leaders and the Interaction Between Gender Bias and Art's StatusA Charismatic AmericanGender and the History of Art Education: Survival and DisappearanceOf Women and Art Education: Roles of ImportanceA Colossus of SortsThe Post Lowenfeld Era: Radical Dissent and Thoughtful RevisionismFrom Aesthetic Education to Discipline-based Art Education: Intellectualizations and ConfusionsReferencesIndex

PETER SMITH is Coordinator of Art Education/Art Therapy at the University of New Mexico. He has exhibited his art work in many parts of the United States and is a familiar name in art education journal literature with more than thirty major articles. His 25 year background in public school teaching serves him well as a spokesman of institutional art education.

• IntroductionThe Beginnings of Education in the Visual Arts in AmericaThe Dismissal of Walter Smith: Historiographic Explanation, the American Art Scene, and Visual Arts Education in the Late Nineteenth CenturyGermanic InfluencesFranz Cizek and the Elusiveness of Historical KnowledgeAmerican Attempts to Democratize Art: Picture StudyAmerican Women in Visual Arts Education: Outstanding Leaders and the Interaction Between Gender Bias and Art's StatusA Charismatic AmericanGender and the History of Art Education: Survival and DisappearanceOf Women and Art Education: Roles of ImportanceA Colossus of SortsThe Post Lowenfeld Era: Radical Dissent and Thoughtful RevisionismFrom Aesthetic Education to Discipline-based Art Education: Intellectualizations and ConfusionsReferencesIndex