Dean Kenning
Biographic Data
| ID | 6558485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Kenning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenning |
| SIGNATURE | KENNING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8504-025X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Art world strategies
This paper explores how the expansion of professional practice on fine art courses in the UK could be detrimentally impacting on the critical and political ambitions of art education. I argue that the current student fees-debt regime institutes a neoliberal model of higher education with a focus on ‘enterprise’, directing student subjectivity towards competitive opportunity seeking market strategies. I examine the case of fine art professional pr…
What Schools Can Offer Art
The article proposes a more central and critical function for gallery education. It argues that challenging gallery education’s marginalization, low status and reactive role within the art institution could lead to a transformation in the field of art more generally. Rejecting a one-direction model for bringing contemporary art to school students and teachers, the article considers the ways in which the encounter between art and compulsory-level …
Art Relations and the Presence of Absence
If relational aesthetics aims at fostering connections between atomised individuals, how can this be compared to reconceived philosophies of community, especially as trends connected with relational art have paradoxically reinforced both the authorial presence of the artist, and competitive individualism amongst artists? The author considers Claire Bishop’s critique of relational aesthetics, and, through an analysis of Santiago Sierra’s ‘remunera…
Art Relations and the Presence of Absence
If relational aesthetics aims at fostering connections between atomised individuals, how can this be compared to reconceived philosophies of community, especially as trends connected with relational art have paradoxically reinforced both the authorial presence of the artist, and competitive individualism amongst artists? The author considers Claire Bishop’s critique of relational aesthetics, and, through an analysis of Santiago Sierra’s ‘remunera…
Art Relations and the Presence of Absence
If relational aesthetics aims at fostering connections between atomised individuals, how can this be compared to reconceived philosophies of community, especially as trends connected with relational art have paradoxically reinforced both the authorial presence of the artist, and competitive individualism amongst artists? The author considers Claire Bishop’s critique of relational aesthetics, and, through an analysis of Santiago Sierra’s ‘remunera…
What Schools Can Offer Art
The article proposes a more central and critical function for gallery education. It argues that challenging gallery education’s marginalization, low status and reactive role within the art institution could lead to a transformation in the field of art more generally. Rejecting a one-direction model for bringing contemporary art to school students and teachers, the article considers the ways in which the encounter between art and compulsory-level …
Art world strategies
This paper explores how the expansion of professional practice on fine art courses in the UK could be detrimentally impacting on the critical and political ambitions of art education. I argue that the current student fees-debt regime institutes a neoliberal model of higher education with a focus on ‘enterprise’, directing student subjectivity towards competitive opportunity seeking market strategies. I examine the case of fine art professional pr…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art methodology (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Contemporary art (2 works)