The Stone Art Theory Institutes. What Do Artists Know? / / ed. by James Elkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Arya, Rina,; Avgita, Louisa,; Baetens, Jan,; Baker, Su,; Boomgaard, Jeroen,; Buckley, Brad,; Conger, William,; Conomos, John,; Dahlgren, Anders,; Elkins, James,; Fendrich, Laurie,; Fotiadis, Michael,; Green, Charles,; Green, Vanalyne,; McGuirk, Tom,; Nelson, Robert,; Nilsson, Håkan,; Plagens, Peter,; Singerman, Howard,; Slager, Henk,; Smith, George,; Søberg, Martin,; Taken, Bert,; Wesseling, Janneke,; Willis, Gary,; Yang, Yeung,
• HerausgeberIn: Elkins, James,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Stone Art Theory Institutes ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” on knotty and provocative issues about art. This third volume in the series, What Do Artists Know?, is about the education of artists. The MFA degree is notoriously poorly conceptualized, and now it is giving way to the PhD in art practice. Meanwhile, conversations on freshman courses in studio art continue to be bogged down by conflicting agendas. This book is about the theories that underwrite art education at all levels, the pertinent history of art education, and the most promising current conceptualizations. The contributors are Areti Adamopoulou, Glenn Adamson, Rina Arya, Louisa Avgita, Jan Baetens, Su Baker, Ciarín Benson, Andrew Blackley, Jeroen Boomgaard, Brad Buckley, William Conger, John Conomos, Christopher Csikszentmihályi, Anders Dahlgren, Jonathan Dronsfield, Marta Edling, Laurie Fendrich, Michael Fotiadis, Christopher Frayling, Miguel González Virgen, R.E.H. Gordon, Charles Green, Vanalyne Green, Barbara Jaffee, Tom McGuirk, William Marotti, Robert Nelson, Håkan Nilsson, Saul Ostrow, Daniel Palmer, Peter Plagens, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Howard Singerman, Henk Slager, George Smith, Martin Søberg, Ann Sobiech Munson, Roy Sorensen, Bert Taken, Hilde Van Gelder, Frank Vigneron, Janneke Wesseling, Frances Whitehead, Gary Willis, and Yeung Yang.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The seminars -- Vorwort -- 1. Histories of Studio Art Teaching -- 2. What Parts of Those Histories Are Pertinent -- 3. The Possibility of a Book on Studio Art Instruction Worldwide -- 4. Artistic Knowledge, Part 1 -- 5. Artistic Knowledge, Part 2 -- 6. The First-Year Program -- 7. The BFA Degree -- 8. The MFA Degree -- 9. The PhD Degree -- Assessments -- The place to be -- Reflections -- Art education in a mediatized world -- A review -- The common denominator -- Thoughts on the seminars -- When art turns its back on the body -- Kant’s assumption what the artist knows and the PHD for visual artists -- What might artists learn from architects -- The war is over -- What’s art got to do with it -- Art education in the university itself a perspective from general education -- Art and the market of knowledge -- Knowledge and value in art -- What is the current state of thinking on the PHD by art practice -- Spook country training for conflicts of interest -- Learning education -- What artists know -- How do artists think -- Beyond authority -- Twenty theses on what artists know -- Afterword a reserve army of intellectuals -- Notes on the contributors -- Index