Maurice Brown – författare

What is involved in "making art"? In what ways have Americansintroduced art making to students? In Art Making and Education, apracticing artist and a historian of art education discuss from theirparticular perspectives the production of studio and classroom art. Amongthose to whom this book will appeal are prospective teachers, school administrators,university-level art educators, and readers interested in the theory ofdiscipline-based art education."The sources are excellent. The bibliographical material is a mustfor any candidate wanting to teach the visual arts and certainly for anystudent hoping to become an artist."-- William Klenk, University of Rhode Island

The conventional received opinion of Adam Smith as an isolated figure, the founder of ‘modern’ economics, is thoroughly mistaken and misleading. This is the central premise of this book, first published in 1988, in which the author argues that by placing Smith’s work in its historical context, we discover profound continuities between Smith’s work and that of his predecessors, and his contemporaries. The effect is to re-orientate our perception of Smith and his achievement. No longer the single-handed champion of free markets and competition whose work revolutionised and completely redirected economics. He appears instead as a brilliant contributor to a deep-rooted contemporary debate, someone who can be placed in a line of thinkers that stretches between Machiavelli and Kant.