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October 21, 2009
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Laetitia La Follette, and Andrea Pappas, eds. Teaching Art History with New Technologies: Reflections and Case Studies Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 161 pp.; 26 b/w ills. Cloth $49.99 (9781847184542)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.105

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Stimulated by the availability of new technologies, the pedagogy of art history is in the midst of dramatic transformation. Until recently, college courses in the discipline were customarily illustrated using manually sequenced film transparencies extracted from local slide libraries. Now, nearly overnight, it seems, art history programs have all but abandoned that tried and true method in favor of PowerPoint presentations assembling digital files downloaded from shared image databases. Meanwhile, class meetings in brick and...