Some more thinking about what we mean when we say ‘medium’ in English curriculum…this list of artistic mediums has been helpful in contextualising English as a subject area within a broader notion of ‘arts’:
In the arts, a media or medium is a material used by an artist or designer to create a work.
- Architecture
- Carpentry
- Digital
- Drawing
- Film
- Light
- Literature
- Natural World
- Painting
- Performing Arts
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Sound
- Technology
- Textiles
Wikipedia ‘List of Artistic Media’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artistic_mediums
Within that list, the medium of literature appeared with the following explanation and links:
Literature
Main articles: Literature and Writing implementThe art of writtenwords and typography is traditionally an ink and printed form on paper or is creatively written with many forms of media.
Common writing media
- Digitalword processor and internetwebsites
- Letterpress printing and computer printing
- Marker
- Nib (pen)
- Pen and ink
- Pencil
- Quill
Common bases for writing
This is food for thought.
The investigation into medium continues…
Kelli McGraw 