History, Practice and Pedagogy

Susan Barahal is a Senior Lecturer at Tufts University, USA where she teaches courses on art education. Her research interests include how art facilitates and informs learning and understanding across the disciplines and content areas. Susan's recent research explores the empathic responses that art objects evoke in viewers. She is a practicing artist and a juried member of the New England Sculptors Association.

Elizabeth Pugliano is Senior Instructor of art history at the University of Colorado Denver. Her work balances art historical research on violence, combat, gender, audience, reception and cognition in medieval art with pedagogical inquiries into issues encountered in the art history classroom and innovation in teaching practice.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Laocoön: Empathy, Motor Imagery, and Predictive Processing.- Chapter 3. Translations of Pain: Ferdinand Hodler's Cancer Paintings of Valentine Godé-Darel.- Chapter 4. Paint and Pain: Gustav Adolf Mossa's Psychological Self-Portrait, Misogynist Self-Empathy, and Bloody Decadent Creativity.- Chapter 5. Objective Non-Empathy in Late Nineteenth-Century France.- Chapter 6. Abstracting Empathy: Wassily Kandinsky and His Artistic Interpretations of Theories in Visual Perception.- Chapter 7. Engaging Feeling: The Subject of Landscape in the Twenty-First Century.- Chapter 8. Thinking Empathy in Biennials and Art History Again.- Chapter 9. The Empathic Space of Art: Video Games and Virtual Reality as Tools in Socially Engaged Art Practice.- Chapter 10. Empathy in Roman Commemorative Art. Chapter 11. "She-the great agitator": Käthe Kollwitz and the Limits of Empathetic Spectatorship in Weimar Germany.- Chapter 12. Empathic Engagements with Death and Loss in the Work of Diane Victor.- Chapter 13. Empathy Rather than Ageism: A Daughter's Portrayal of Her Elderly Holocaust Survivor Mother.- Chapter 14. The Empathic Resonances of Village of Women (2019): On Cinematic Expansion Through Retreat.- Chapter 15. Feeling Into and Feeling With: Art Practice and Empathic Attention.- Chapter 16. Art as Empathetic Connection: Ways to Heal the Brain and Soul from Trauma.- Chapter 17. Visual Art and Empathy: A Fusion of the Intellectual and Emotional.- Chapter 18. Exploring Empathic Engagements: Resources for Educators and Students.