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Art Subjects - Making Artists in the American University (Paperback, New)
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Nearly every artist under the age of 50 in the United States in the
late-20th century has a Master of Fine Arts degee. This study
places that degree in its proper historical framework and
ideological context. Arguing that where artists are trained makes a
difference in the forms and meanings they produce, he shows how the
university, with its disciplined organization of knowledge and
demand for language, played a critical role in the production of
modernism in the visual arts. Now it is shaping what we call
postmodernism - like postmodernist art, the graduate university
stresses theory and research over manual skills and traditional
techniques of representation. The text begins by examining the
first campus-based art schools in the 1870s and goes on to consider
the structuring role of women art educators and women students; the
shift from the "fine arts" to the "visual arts"; the fundamental
grammar of art laid down in the schoolroom; and the development of
professional art training in the American university. The book
reveals the ways we have conceived of art in the past hundred years
and have institutionalized that conception as atelier activity, as
craft, and finally as theory a
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