Art School : Propositions for the 21st Century

by Madoff, Steven Henry

• ISBN13: 9780262134934
• ISBN10: 0262134934
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world-its increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market, and fundamental shifts in art-making itself in our post-Duchampian era-combined with a revolution in information technology, raise fundamental questions about the education of today's artists. Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century)brings together more than thirty leading international artists and art educators to reconsider the practices of art education in academic, practical, ethical, and philosophical terms. The essays in the book range over continents, histories, traditions, experiments, and fantasies of education. Accompanying the essays are conversations with such prominent artist/educators as John Baldessari, Michael Craig-Martin, Hans Haacke, and Marina Abramovic, as well as questionnaire responses from a dozen important artists-among them Mike Kelley, Ann Hamilton, Guillermo Kuitca, and Shirin Neshat-about their own experiences as students. A fascinating analysis of the architecture of major historical art schools throughout the world looks at the relationship of the principles of their designs to the principles of the pedagogy practiced within their halls. And throughout the volume, attention is paid to new initiatives and proposals about what an art school can and should be in the twenty-first century-and what it shouldn't be. No other book on the subject covers more of the questions concerning art education today or offers more insight into the pressures, challenges, risks, and opportunities for artists and art educators in the years ahead. Contributors: Marina Abramovic, Dennis Adams, John Baldessari, Ute Meta Bauer, Daniel Birnbaum, Saskia Bos, Tania Bruguera, Luis Camnitzer, Michael Craig-Martin, Thierry de Duve, Clementine Deliss, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Ann Lauterbach, Ken Lum, Steven Henry Madoff, Brendan D. Moran, Ernesto Pujol, Raqs Media Collective, Charles Renfro, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Robert Storr, Anton Vidokle Questionnaires: Thomas Bayrle, Paul Chan, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Piero Golia, Ann Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Mike Kelley, Guillermo Kuitca, Shirin Neshat, Paul Ramirez-Jonas, Dana Schutz, Brian Sholis, Fred Wilson

Author Biography

Steven Henry Madoff, an award-winning writer, editor, and poet, has written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as Artforum, the New York Times, and Time magazine, and published numerous monographs on leading artists. He is Senior Critic at Yale University's School of Art.

Steven Henry Madoff, an award-winning writer, editor, and poet, has written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as Artforum, the New York Times, and Time magazine, and published numerous monographs on leading artists. He is Senior Critic at Yale University's School of Art.

Thierry de Duve is Director of Studies, Association de préfiguration de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

Boris Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of Art Power, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

Brendan D. Moran is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Robert Storr is Rosalee Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and Director of the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Jeffrey Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, where he is Professor of Romance Literatures, teaches at the Graduate School of Design, and serves as faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) is counted among the most important conceptual artists to emerge from South American in the 1960s. Born in Germany and raised in Uruguay, he moved to New York in 1964 and was at the vanguard of Conceptualism.

Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art critic, theoretician, and curator. He was the director of the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm from 2010 to 2018, and currently directs the VR company, Acute Art.

Hans Haacke is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York. From 1967 to 2002, he taught at The Cooper Union.

Steven Henry Madoff, an award-winning writer, editor, and poet, has written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as Artforum, the New York Times, and Time magazine, and published numerous monographs on leading artists. He is Senior Critic at Yale University's School of Art.

Mike Kelley is a Los Angeles-based artist, noise musician, and writer. He is a member of the graduate faculty in the M.F.A. program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
On the Ground	p. 1
Practical Observations for Regenerating Art Education
An Ethics	p. 15
Putting Aesthetic Transmission in Its Proper Place in the Art World
Education by Infection	p. 25
Aesthetic Platforms	p. 33
Ecole des Beaux-Arts	p. 38
Conversation	p. 41
Dear Colleague	p. 53
Bauhaus Building	p. 68
How to Be an Artist by Night	p. 71
Raqs Media Collective
Black Mountain College	p. 82
The Thing Seen: Reimagining Arts Education For Now	p. 85
Institute for Design	p. 98
Include Me Out: Preparing Artists to Undo the Art World	p. 101
Yale Art and Architecture Building	p. 114
Roaming, Prelusive, Permeable: Future Academy	p. 117
Artereality (Rethinking Craft in a Knowledge Economy)	p. 141
Undesigning the New Art School	p. 159
Conversation	p. 177
From Exhibition to School	p. 189
Notes from Unitednationsplaza
In Latin America	p. 201
Art Education Between Colonialism and Revolution
Marfa Complex	p. 216
Under Pressure	p. 219
Art Center College of Design	p. 228
Teaching Art: Adorno and the Devil	p. 231
Nobody Asked You to Do Nothing/A Potential School	p. 247
Generator Project	p. 254
Conversation	p. 257
States of Exception	p. 271
Le Fresnoy	p. 286
Questionnaire	p. 289
Dear Steven	p. 329
Zollverein School of Management and Design	p. 340
Contributors	p. 343
Notes	p. 353
Index	p. 365
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