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Artistic education is directed toward building foundational skills and knowledgein art, but it also influences the artist’s larger worldview. This studyexamines the role of artistic education in shaping individual artistic beliefs,attitudes, and personal philosophies among a small group of Americanpainters. Its central focus is the common belief among artists that artmakingor aesthetic response to art can be a form of spiritual activity or experienceleading to spiritual insight. This book traces the educational transfer andevolution of notions linking art and spirituality through four generationswithin a single school of painting. The primary data for this study is a seriesof in-depth oral history interviews with seven painters who studied withHenry Hensche at The Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA, a summerschool of American plein air painting that is linked with Impressionism.Charles W. Hawthorne, a painter who was a protégé of AmericanImpressionist William Merritt Chase, founded the school in 1899. This book isaddressed to artists, educators, and researchers who are interested in waysthat spiritual ideas may be acquired and conveyed through education.
