Artist and Site Creator:
Robert P. Taylor

As suggested by the identical thumbnails (top right and left) depicting a hand copying a head from Boily's Amateur Art Critic, this site is a vehicle for exhibiting drawn images of other artists' works. Both the site and all its drawings were created in 1998-99, by Robert P. Taylor of Teachers College, Columbia University, then re-edited and reformatted in early 2002, to take advantage of (1) better scanning devices developed since some of the images were scanned, and (2) all that had been learned from the more than ten analogous sites based on drawings made since mid-1999. In the last decade, a growing portion of Taylor's focus in teaching and research at Teachers College has shifted toward the globalization of education, a phenomena reflecting the broader globalization of human society that has accelerated in the Twentieth Century. Despite the many signs of globalization though, many people, including educators, still largely ignore it. Most of the websites were created with at least a subsidiary intention of countering this ignorance and increasing intelligent awareness of this globalization.

Taylor is keenly interested in the visual arts, and spends a large number of hours each month in various museums both in New York City and (when travelling) elsewhere. In addition to being interested in art because of its globalization, he is active as an artist, and produced over 4000 works (the vast majority drawings) between the start of 1996 and and the close of 2001. He sees drawing not just as fun and as art, but also as a tool to explore global communication, too, because images can communicate across language and other cultural barriers. It is little wonder then, that creating websites has attracted his interest, as a way of demonstrating and explaining globalization and its impact on human society and cultural artifacts.

This site is only one of over twenty that alone, or in collaboration with others, were created since 1995, precisely to explore these ideas ( for some of them, see Related Taylor websites below). All have something to do with education, with redressing the imbalance (1) between learning based on text and learning based on other representations of intelligence, and (2) between societal understanding based on local, narrow outlooks and that based on a broader, more global outlook. All images are the property of Robert P. Taylor and permission to reuse them must be obtained from the artist. Such requests, questions, or reflective suggestions about the site are welcome and can be communicated through Comments below.
R. P Taylor, 14 March 2002

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