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

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” o...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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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