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ERIC Number: EJ740145
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0004-3125
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Manipulation of the Family Photo Album: Esther Parada's Transplant--A Tale of Three Continents
Eggemeyer, Valerie
Art Education, v57 n2 p19-24 Mar 2004
In this article, the author focuses on Esther Parada's non-traditional use of the Web to communicate her art, and offers a critique of Parada's work, "Transplant: A Tale of Three Continents," and suggestions for critiquing Web art in the school classroom. Parada creates an intersection between this new medium and the more traditional medium of photography. Her words and images craft a story and the Web allows these visual codes to be viewed in an integral non-linear manner. The ideology embedded in Parada's site facilitates the viewer to create a commentary on feminism, imperialism, and society, and to consider the social impositions of a foreign economy. Critiquing web-based art is a fairly new phenomenon in art criticism, yet, this process can be done by art educators and their students to reveal interesting connections to their world through postmodern works of art such as this one. The author concludes that the World Wide Web poses endless possibilities for lesson plans. By allowing students to share multiple interpretations of Web-based work in the classroom, teachers allow both meaningful personal and cognitive growth to occur. (Contains 9 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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