β Scribed by Mary Jane Jacob; Jacquelynn Baas (editors)
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How is art conceived, created, and experienced? How is it taught? How does the act of viewing a work make the viewer part of that work? Learning Mind: Experience Into Art addresses these questions as it documents the changing practices in the making, teaching, and exhibition of art. Timely, multifaceted, and instructive, this groundbreaking volume explores the contemporary art experience and its expanding presence in society through lively essays, revealing interviews, and provocative conversations with some of the most influential artists and educators of our time. Featured artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ann Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar, Kerry James Marshall, and Ernesto Pujol, along with designers Walter Hood and Bruce Mau. Contributing authors include curators Marcia Tucker and Christopher Bedford, art critics Michael Brenson and Jerry Saltz, art historian David Getsy, educators Ronald Jones and Lawrence Rinder, philosopher Arthur Danto, psychiatrist Mark Epstein, theorist W.J.T. Mitchell, and chef-educator Alice Waters. In demonstrating the role that art schools and universities play in the creative process, Learning Mind offers students, teachers, and readers new and vital theoretical texts as well as practical strategies for integrating art into our daily lives.
Copub: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Contents
Introduction
On the Being of Being an Artist
Introduction
The Gap between Art and Life
What Art Is and What Artists Do
Multiple Personalities: A How-to Manual for Artists and Other Creative Types
Meditation as Art/Art as Meditation: Thoughts on the Relationship of Non-intention to the Creative Process
Our Barefoot Practice
Making Not Knowing
Fate and Art
It is difficult
Radical AgencyβMassive Change: Social Agendas in Art and Design
On Making Art and Pedagogy
Introduction
Teaching Discourse: Reflection Strong, Not Theory Light
Practicing Rauschenberg
Pedagogy, Art, and the Rules of the Game
Zones of Activity: From the Gallery to the Classroom
Toward a New Critical Pedagogy
Fail Again. Fail Better.
Coming Back to Our Senses
On Experiencing Art
Introduction
Being with Cloud Gate
This Is Nowhere
The Look of the Artist
Headless/Heedless: Experiencing Agora
Unframing Experience
The Unknown Child: Art Mediation/Mediation Art
Looking at an Exhibition
The Empty Conversation
List of Illustrations
Index
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