Cusack Nancy A (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 100 pp. "DEDICATION These papers were written in the year of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Walter Smith, the first director of the Massachusetts College of Art, then the Massachusetts Normal Art School". Following the remarks by William F. O'Neil, President of the MCA, and the "Prologue" by Diana Korzenik, Contents divided into 7 Essays: [1] Claudine Bing, "Beginning Again: Artists and Students as Learners"; [2] Nancy A. Cusack, "New Art, New Students, New Teaching"; [3] Abigail Housen, "Museums in an Age of Pluralism"; [4] Trintje Jansen, "Islands of Clay"; [5] Diana Korzenik, "Why Government Cared"; [6] Donald R. Lettis and Linden D. Summers, Jr., "What Role for Art in Public Education"; [7] Christy Park, "Conversational Aesthetics". Glossy wrappers with full front cover grainy photo-illustration of members of "Class of 1887", with additional copies ["detail"] in text. Tiny outward curls at corners (essentially square); light rubbing at corners and thin line of wear across spine ends and intermittent rubbing down spine edges: describes worse than it is but there you have it. Tight binding (NO cracks); negligible rubbing wear; essentially square corners; NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Laid in (NO offsetting): Ken Gewertz, "The Art of Teaching Art: At the Carpenter Center, visiting lecturers practice what they preach", in Harvard Gazette (November 3, 1994).…