James Elkins & Types of Knowing: Can Art and Design be taught?
Impact on Contemporary art schools
- We still value a loose/free investigation of meaning
- Tutors try to cultivate student individuality
WHAT I THINK
These are the points that I feel mean the most to me, I do believe that tutors do try and uphold a loose and free investigation of meaning. In Graphic design I feel that it's important that this is upheld, we need to have a sense of anything is possible and that we are being taught not as a group but as individuals which are being taught the same things but we are learning different things from it.
Bauhaus 1919-1933
- Belief in formal and universal rudiments of practice
- Focus on experiences/ exploration
- to increase sensitivity to phenomena
- Is there a Tabula Rasa? (The idea of the mind as a blank state)
My Response : I believe that there isn't a blank state of mind (Tabula Rasa), we are constantly thinking about something and to say we are thinking about nothing is quite unusual. Although I am taking this question that spencer proposed quite literal I feel I prefer the literal answer a lot more that any other.
James Elkin:
- Book: Artists with PHS'S,
- Book: Why art can't be taught
- He is an art critic
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