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Toward a New Aesthetics
Institutional Criticism in Art Education from 1900 to Today
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Has art education lost its critical edge? Is art becoming just another form of intellectual labor? Toward a New Aesthetics argues that the increasing âscientificationâ of art is directly linked to a decline in institutional self-critique. This study offers the first comprehensive examination of institutional critique within art schools. Through contributions from leading art historians, critics, educators, and artists, readers will trace a century of critical engagement, from radical challenge and transformative beginnings to todayâs institutional affirmation. Exploring international case studies, the book reveals how the rise of artistic research has profoundly impacted artâs critical potential within the global knowledge economy.
Contributors are: Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Katherine Bruhn, Benjamin Buchloh, Emily Ruth Capper, Nicola Foster, Tom Holert, Erika Kindsfather, Sooyoung Leam, Sandra Neugärtner, Isabel Nogueira, Noa Sadka, Jeffrey Saletnik, Christine-Marie Schoel, Rebecca Sprowl and Jack Watts.
Contributors are: Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Katherine Bruhn, Benjamin Buchloh, Emily Ruth Capper, Nicola Foster, Tom Holert, Erika Kindsfather, Sooyoung Leam, Sandra Neugärtner, Isabel Nogueira, Noa Sadka, Jeffrey Saletnik, Christine-Marie Schoel, Rebecca Sprowl and Jack Watts.
Sandra Neugärtner is an art historian specializing in the dynamic relationship between art and society. Building on her 2021 publication, Statt Farbe: Licht (Gebr. Mann), she is currently preparing a second monograph investigating the profound transformations in early 20th-century art production through the work of Léna Meyer-Bergner.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Fate of Critique in Art Education
âSandra Neugärtner
1 The Women of Nüshu: Art Education as Institutional Critique?
âNicola Foster
2 Between Liberal Art Education and Mass Culture: Schule Reimann
âSandra Neugärtner
3 Words of Mouth: Ends of the Critics
âBenjamin H. D. Buchloh
4 A Fragment of Society: âArt Educationâ as Infrastructure (Great Britain, 1968â1978)
âTom Holert
5 John Cageâs Equalizing Abundance
âJeffrey Saletnik
6 âWhy Donât You Do Something Good?â: Spectra of Assessment and Institutional Schisms in the Context of English Art Education
âJake Watts
7 Coimbraâs Plastic Arts Circle in the 1970s: An Experimental Art Educational Laboratory in the Framework of the Traditional University of Coimbra
âIsabel Nogueira
8 â(â¦) Radical Change was in the Airâ: Judy Chicagoâs Pedagogical Work at Fresno State College in 1970
âMarie-Christine Schoel
9 Cross-Pollination: The Relationship between John Baldessariâs Art and His Pedagogy
âRebecca Sprowl
10 Post-Post-Studio Art: The Next Generation of Artist-Teachers
âRebecca Sprowl
11 The Citizens Art School: Rehearsing Collectivity through Printmaking in South Korea, 1980sâ1990s
âSooyoung Leam
12 On Disturbed Methodologies: A Re-cap Almost in Verbatim of Spontaneous Interventions
âBernard Akoi-Jackson
13 The Sanggar Legacy: Integrating Nature and Spirituality through Collective Learning at the Jakarta Institute of Art Education
âKatherine L. Bruhn
14 Taking (A)Part: Intermedia Textiles and Community Participation in Evelyn Rothâs Creative Recycling Workshops, 1967â1975
âErika Kindsfather
15 How to Teach Photography in the Place Where War Never Ends?: The Bezalel Photography Department as a Case Study, Jerusalem, 1910â1984
âNoa Sadka
16 Primitivism and Experimental Pedagogy: Allan Kaprowâs Night (1961)
âEmily Ruth Capper
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Fate of Critique in Art Education
âSandra Neugärtner
Part 1: Frameworks of Institutional Critique
1 The Women of Nüshu: Art Education as Institutional Critique?
âNicola Foster
2 Between Liberal Art Education and Mass Culture: Schule Reimann
âSandra Neugärtner
3 Words of Mouth: Ends of the Critics
âBenjamin H. D. Buchloh
4 A Fragment of Society: âArt Educationâ as Infrastructure (Great Britain, 1968â1978)
âTom Holert
Part 2: Practices of Resistance (1960sâ1980s)
5 John Cageâs Equalizing Abundance
âJeffrey Saletnik
6 âWhy Donât You Do Something Good?â: Spectra of Assessment and Institutional Schisms in the Context of English Art Education
âJake Watts
7 Coimbraâs Plastic Arts Circle in the 1970s: An Experimental Art Educational Laboratory in the Framework of the Traditional University of Coimbra
âIsabel Nogueira
8 â(â¦) Radical Change was in the Airâ: Judy Chicagoâs Pedagogical Work at Fresno State College in 1970
âMarie-Christine Schoel
Part 3: Methodological Critiques and Pedagogical Legacies
9 Cross-Pollination: The Relationship between John Baldessariâs Art and His Pedagogy
âRebecca Sprowl
10 Post-Post-Studio Art: The Next Generation of Artist-Teachers
âRebecca Sprowl
11 The Citizens Art School: Rehearsing Collectivity through Printmaking in South Korea, 1980sâ1990s
âSooyoung Leam
12 On Disturbed Methodologies: A Re-cap Almost in Verbatim of Spontaneous Interventions
âBernard Akoi-Jackson
Part 4: Decolonial Challenges and Alternative Epistemologies
13 The Sanggar Legacy: Integrating Nature and Spirituality through Collective Learning at the Jakarta Institute of Art Education
âKatherine L. Bruhn
14 Taking (A)Part: Intermedia Textiles and Community Participation in Evelyn Rothâs Creative Recycling Workshops, 1967â1975
âErika Kindsfather
15 How to Teach Photography in the Place Where War Never Ends?: The Bezalel Photography Department as a Case Study, Jerusalem, 1910â1984
âNoa Sadka
16 Primitivism and Experimental Pedagogy: Allan Kaprowâs Night (1961)
âEmily Ruth Capper
Index
This book is essential for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students, scholars of art history and theory, artists, art educators, and anyone interested in art education, knowledge production, and the evolving relationship between art and institutional structures within the neoliberal knowledge economy.