What Schools Can Offer Art
Towards an Avant-Gardist Conception of Gallery Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean Kenning (0000-0002-8504-025X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-341 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2013.816536 |
| OpenAlex | W2022519015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
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 education can have positive effects not only on school education but on art itself, particularly as it opens art to the possibilities of a less hierarchical and more socially critical purpose. From a radical perspective, an avant-gardist conception of art is shown to make common cause with critical pedagogy in a project of collective emancipation. Gallery education is proposed as a potentially avant-gardist practice, conceived in terms of 1) art’s becoming social; 2) bringing about the new; and 3) transforming the field of art. These three conditions are tested through an exploration of current debates and practices in art, art teaching and gallery education
Aesthetics · Art · Art gallery · Art history · Art methodology · Contemporary art · Emancipation · Exhibition · Institution · Modern art · Pedagogy · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual arts education · Art Education and Development · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |