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Patricia J. Miltner ( Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:53:40 -0600 (CST)
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website Curriculum Issues Seminar on Our Place In the World,
Dr.Erickson's Curriculum Resource. As I browsed the list of
themes in Activity One: Thinking About Themes, a question came
to mind initiated by a student. How is a theme different from
subject matter? She thought that subject matter was a subject
that mattered(what the art is about). The theme is the main or
BIG IDEA(all people know about this)that can travel across time
and place. Would subject matter then include still life,
portrait, landscape, sensory properties, genre???? Her
example....Pippin's Holy Mountain is a landscape, that is the
subject matter, but the big idea, the theme, is war and peace.
Does anyone have other ideas as to how to explain this to  Pat
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