Chapter 5/6 reflection

Ok, I have to admit...in order to actually read this book, I had to get rid of the dust jacket (it was so distracting with its unrealistically lit mountain peaks and river...). Ah, that's better :)

Chapter four was really meaningful to me. He reminded me, when talking about subject centered education, of the impact that art history classes had on in me in my undergraduate schooling. Up until that point, dates, line charts, and small chapters referring to important periods of history from my previous schooling made a very little impact on how I saw the world. I couldn't remember the dates of the first world war, couldn't tell you when the United States entered the second world war until.......Art History, Renaissance to Modern Era. Suddenly, connections between art periods and what had gone on in the world was making sense. Ideas were being aligned, dates were being remembered, history was making sense in a REAL SENSE to me. To this day, so much of how i remember the different periods of world history have everything to do with the art that was made during that time because it suddenly becomes holistic- everything is connected to everything else. Before my art classes, I had seen history removed, in the past. Art subjectivised it for me- made it real.