What do artists know?

Author(s)

• Elkins, James

Bibliographic Information

What do artists know?

edited by James Elkins ; event co-organized with Frances Whitehead

（The Stone Art Theory Institutes, volume 3）

The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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, Ciarin Benson, Andrew Blackley, Jeroen Boomgaard, Brad Buckley, William Conger, John Conomos, Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, Anders Dahlgren, Jonathan Dronsfield, Marta Edling, Laurie Fendrich, Michael Fotiadis, Christopher Frayling, Miguel Gonzalez Virgen, R.E.H. Gordon, Charles Green, Vanalyne Green, Barbara Jaffee, Tom McGuirk, William Marotti, Robert Nelson, Hakan Nilsson, Saul Ostrow, Daniel Palmer, Peter Plagens, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Howard Singerman, Henk Slager, George Smith, Martin Soberg, Ann Sobiech Munson, Roy Sorensen, Bert Taken, Hilde Van Gelder, Frank Vigneron, Janneke Wesseling, Frances Whitehead, Gary Willis, and Yeung Yang.

Table of Contents

Contents Series Preface Introduction James Elkins The Seminars 1 Histories of Studio Art Teaching 2 What Parts of Those Histories Are Relevant? 3 The Possibility of a Book on Art Teaching Worldwide 4 Knowledge, Part 1 5 Knowledge, Part 2 6 The First-Year Program 7 The BFA Degree 8 The MFA Degree 9 The PhD Degree Assessments Areti Adamopoulou Ciarin Benson Andrew Blackley Jan Baetens Robert Nelson Bert Taken and Jeroen Boomgaard William Conger Anders Dahlgren Michael Fotiadis Tom McGuirk George Smith Martin Soberg Su Baker Gary Willis Yeung Yang Louisa Avgita Rina Arya Brad Buckley and John Conomos Charles Green Hakan Nilsson Laurie Fendrich and Peter Plagens Janneke Wesseling Vanalyne Green Glenn Adamson Henk Slager Christopher Csikszentmihalyi Marta Edling Sir Christopher Frayling Miguel Gonzalez Virgen R.E.H. Gordon Barbara Jaffee William Marotti Saul Ostrow Daniel Palmer Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Howard Singerman Ann Sobiech Munson Roy Sorenson Hilde Van Gelder Frank Vigneron Frances Whitehead Afterword Howard Singerman Notes on the Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BB13219522
• ISBN:
  • 9780271054247
• LCCN: 2012023602
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: University Park, Pennsylvania
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 228 p.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : N82
  • DC23 : 707.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Art -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04471473