Why, how, to whom, and by whom was art taught? Lessons in Art (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, Vol 68) provides answers to these questions by addressing the relation between art and education in the Netherlands from 1500 to the 1970s. The authors gathered in this volume consider the practical and theoretical education of artists as well as the role of art and creativity for general education within a wide societal context. They present new ways of looking at teaching materials and methods, that were devised for the education of experts, and show how art and creativity were employed as powerful didactic tools for a general audience. From early-modernity to the present, education, it appears, fuels the production and perception of art.
Eric Jorink, PhD., is Teylers professor at Leiden University and researcher at the Huygens Institute (KNAW). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715.
Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Ph.D., University of Groningen, is Professor of Art History & Material Culture. She has published widely on the role of materials and making in the visual arts.
Bart Ramakers, Ph.D., University of Groningen, is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature and is an expert of Dutch literature up to c. 1800, especially of the Medieval Period and the Rhetoricians.