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How do we see art works? How do we see artefacts? How do we see our surroundings? How do we see the world?
This book opens up a worldwide dialogue between ten experts, from Japan to Brazil, from South Africa to Germany. It provides a fascinating insight into the different cultures of seeing and learning to see. It also offers a deeper understanding of the differences that divide us and the similarities that connect us. This book marks an important step towards transcultural art education.
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How do we see art works? How do we see artefacts? How do we see our surroundings? How do we see the world?
This book opens up a worldwide dialogue between ten experts, from Japan to Brazil, from South Africa to Germany. It provides a fascinating insight into the different cultures of seeing and learning to see. It also offers a deeper understanding of the differences that divide us and the similarities that connect us. This book marks an important step towards transcultural art education.
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Dr. Nobumasa Kiyonaga is Professor of Art Theory in the Faculty of Art of the University of East Asia in Shimonoseki, Japan. Following a degree in Social Studies for School Education, Art Education and Art Science at the University of Yamaguchi and Hiroshima University, Dr. Kiyonaga completed his doctorate under the supervision of Wolfgang Legler in the Department of Educational Science at the University of Hamburg in 2007 with his thesis on "Alfred Lichtwark: Art Education as Cultural Politics" (Munich, Kopaed Publishers, 2008). He has worked at the University of East Asia since 2011. His research focuses on the areas of the development of discourse on Aesthetic Education, or Art Education, Cultural Education in Contemporary Germany and the History of Art and Cultural Politics in the German Empire.Bernadette Van Haute was Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Music at the University of South Africa (retired in 2022). She studied Ethnic Art in Belgium and wrote her Master's dissertation on selected art of Central Africa. Her Doctoral thesis focused on a monograph and catalogue raisonné of the Flemish artist David III Ryckaert (2000, Brepols). Van Haute also published a book on 17th century Flemish paintings in public collections in South Africa (2006, Unisa Press). Her research interests include the representation of Africa in the art of the 17th-century Netherlands; African modernism and contemporary art in Africa.
