Art Subjects - Making Artists in the American University (Paperback, New)

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

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	Howard Singerman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	306
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-21502-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-21502-8
Barcode:	9780520215023

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