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ERIC Number: EJ566891
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0004-3125
Constructing Secret Rooms: Assemblages, Creative Writing, Self-discovery, and the Art of Joseph Cornell.
Platt, Thomas Julian
Art Education, v51 n1 p57-63 Jan 1998
Profiles a course that challenges college seniors to gain new perspectives, skills, experiences, and insights into their own creative and imaginative processes. The course uses the work of Joseph Cornell who constructed enigmatic, box-like assemblages from found objects. Students construct their own boxes and consider future applications of this process. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Products, Artists, Collage, Content Analysis, Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Found Objects, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Poetry, Sculpture, Surrealism, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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