This text is designed to excite and interest students who have minimal knowledge of art and limited confidence in responding to it. To this end, the book starts at the students' introductory level and sets out to stimulate their active participation.

"Robert Bersson's Responding to Art (RTA) is a welcome addition to the corpus of art survey and appreciation texts.  Moreover, it is a touchstone text for art appreciation. Not only is it richly illustrated on high-quality paper with a plethora of color plates, but it is a very versatile text."

"...there is no question that Responding to Art will yield many years of solid classroom value. This value is based on three foundations. The first is the author's belief that students learn best by actively contributing to and even defining what art is and what it signifies. The second, philosophically underpinning the first, is Bersson's philosophy of art education, that “ true cultural democracy, in its generosity and tolerance, can embrace fine and popular art, formalist and contextualist perspectives, individual and social goals.” The third is a “team-teaching” approach, wherein a single teacher/authorial narrative continuum is enriched by multiple, congenially voiced appreciations."

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