2025 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 9-16
This research aims to understand the characteristics of the high school art textbook “Bijutsu/sono-seshin-to-hyogen 1” published by Gendai Bijutsu-sha in 1981. “Bijutsu/sono-seshin-to-hyogen” is the title of the book in Japanese, and in English it means “Art: Its Spirit and Expression”. To conduct an objective textbook analysis, in addition to the analysis of “Bijutsu/sono-seshin-to-hyogen 1”, I conducted a comparative analysis of other companies’ textbooks published at the same time from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. In the past, I analyzed the junior high school art textbooks published in 1981. As a result, it was discovered that Gendai Bijutsu-sha’s textbooks had a unique structure, whereas textbooks from other companies had similar structures with no individuality. However, this analysis revealed that all high school art textbooks have a distinctive structure. Among them, “Bijutsu/sono-seshin-to-hyogen 1” is the most conspicuous editing content, and from the analysis results, I was able to summarize its characteristics into 5 points. The most distinctive feature is that each topic has a large number of characters, and the writing style is carefully designed to convey ideas and techniques related to art and production.
