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“Artustry” or the Immaculate Misconception of the ‘70's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Donald Bohn
Donald Bohn*
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Stanford University
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In 1870, on May 16, Massachusetts passed a law permitting drawing (industrial and mechanical) to be “freely” taught in any city and town, and making “free” instruction compulsory in cities and towns of over ten-thousand people. The city of Boston also passed a compulsory art education law. The why is simple. The French had sent up a “sputnik.” This is explained tersely by Ware in his articles on drawing: At the Universal Exhibition of 1851, England found herself, by general Consent, almost at the bottom of the list, among all the countries of the World, in respect of her art-manufactures. Only the United States of the great nations stood below her. The first result of this discovery was the establishment of schools of art in every large town. At the Paris Exposition of 1867, England stood among the foremost, and in some branches of manuacture distanced the most artistic nations. It was the schools of art and the great collections of works of industrial art at the South Kensington Museum that accomplished this result. The United States still held her place at the foot of the column.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1968 , pp. 107 - 110
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Copyright © 1968 by New York University 

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Notes

1 “Drawing in the Public Schools: The Present Relation of Art to Education in the United States,” Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 2–1874. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1874, pp. 17, 20; hereafter cited as Circulars No. 2–1874.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 11.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., p. 10.Google Scholar

4 Smith, Walter, Art-Education, Scholastic and Industrial. Boston: James Osgood and Co., 1872; hereafter cited as Art-Education.Google Scholar

5 Circulars No. 2–1874, p. 17.Google Scholar

6 Ibid., p. 8.Google Scholar

7 Ibid., p. 13.Google Scholar

8 Art-education, p. 17.Google Scholar

9 Circulars, No. 2–1874, p. 17.Google Scholar

10 Ibid., p. 10.Google Scholar

11 Ibid. Google Scholar

12 Ibid. Google Scholar

13 Ibid., p. 19.Google Scholar

14 Ibid., p. 19f.Google Scholar

15 Ibid. Google Scholar

16 Ibid., pp. 11, 12, 21.Google Scholar

17 “American Education as Described by the French Commission to the International Exhibition of 1876.” Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5–1879. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1879.Google Scholar