Victor D'Amico
American artist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Victor D'Amico was an American teaching artist and the founding Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. D’Amico explored the essence of the art experience as spiritual involvement, and the ability to communicate one's most profound ideas and emotions through aesthetic expression. He considered that the individual's personality had to be respected and developed by providing opportunities for creative experimentation. D'Amico's philosophy was based on the fundamental faith in the creative potential in every man, woman and child. He believed "that the arts are a humanizing force and their major function is to vitalize the living."
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- Creative teaching in art (1942) (46)
- The visual arts in general education : a report of the Committee on the Function of Art in General Education for the Commission on the Secondary School Curriculum (1940) (6)
- Art for the family (1954) (6)
- Creative Art for Children, Young People, Adults, Schools (1951) (5)
- Art Education Today: Millennium or Mirage? (1966) (2)
- Experiments in creative art teaching : a progress report on the Department of Education, 1937-1960. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (1961) (2)
- Art for War Veterans (1945) (2)
- Art Education in Wartime (1943) (2)
- Art Therapy in Education (1943) (2)
- Art Education in the High School. Reprinted in Full from the Session on Education at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the College Art Association (1936) (1)
- Art Education Today, 1948 (1949) (1)
- How to make objects of wood (1951) (1)
- Modern Art for Today’s Schools (1944) (1)
- Art for Victory: The Committee on Art in American Education and Society (1943) (0)
- The Arts in Education Now (1936) (0)
- Art Education in the High School (1936) (0)
- Art for Victory (1944) (0)
- Art Education Begins at Home (1947) (0)
- Some Art Questions Answered (1938) (0)
- Art education today : an annual devoted to the problems of art education (1948) (0)
- Art for the Pre-Adolescent (1973) (0)
- Children’s Art and the War (1943) (0)
- A Classroom Family Tree. (1972) (0)
- How to make pottery and ceramic sculpture : 20 graded projects (1947) (0)
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