Learning the Rules? An Anthropological Approach to Art Education Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19558564 |
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| Authors | Morgan Perkins (Art Institute of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Les actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2105-2735 • E-ISSN: 2105-2735 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/actesbranly.334 |
| OpenAlex | W3193978 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Consider how art is learned. Are there rules of presentation and behavior that are learned as skills and techniques are acquired? As a preliminary anthropological study of art education, this paper examines the acquisition of knowledge through artistic forms. It takes a cross-cultural approach to contemporary art education that includes artists working with Chinese, Mohawk and Nigerian forms. On one level, education involves training in the skills necessary to handle materials and express concepts or emotions through form. On another level, art education has a broad socializing role that orients an artist to the conventions and social practices associated with a particular culture. In an international contemporary art world where artists from different cultures are often categorized as contemporary or traditional based upon their ability to innovate rather than maintain cultural forms, such an examination of the foundations of artistic knowledge is essential. Varied conceptions of avant-garde art have come to influence the education process. The increasing cross-cultural use of the term avant-garde is itself a reflection of the transformation of indigenous systems of art education. A combination of anthropological and art historical studies of art education can provide broad insight into the relative degree of continuity and transformation in education systems in a global context. Examination of these systems reveals the complex mixture of individual and cultural forms that constitute the contemporary global sphere of art production
Aesthetics · Art · Art methodology · Contemporary art · Epistemology · Indigenous · Mohawk · Pedagogy · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Visual arts education · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Highly cited | No |
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