What Do Artists Know?

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CONTENTS Series Preface ix introduction James Elkins 1 the seminars 1. Histories of Studio Art Teaching 13 2. What Parts of Those Histories Are Pertinent? 25 3. The Possibility of a Book on Studio Art Instruction Worldwide 33 4. Artistic Knowledge, Part 1 39 5. Artistic Knowledge, Part 2 47 6. The First-Year Program 59 7. The BFA Degree 77 8. The MFA Degree 83 9. The PhD Degree 103 assessments Jan Baetens 125 Robert Nelson 128 Bert Taken and Jeroen Boomgaard 131 William Conger 135 Anders Dahlgren 139 Michael Fotiadis 141 Tom McGuirk 146 George Smith 152 Martin Søberg 155 Su Baker 158 Gary Willis 162 Yeung Yang 166 Louisa Avgita 171 Rina Arya 175 Brad Buckley and John Conomos 178 Charles Green 181 Hákan Nilsson 186 Laurie Fendrich and Peter Plagens 189 Janneke Wesseling 193 Vanalyne Green 196 Glenn Adamson 198 Henk Slager 200 afterword Howard Singerman 205 Notes on the Contributors 217 Index 221 00i-228_Elkins_4p.indb 7 9/14/12 1:17 PM 00i-228_Elkins_4p.indb 8 9/14/12 1:17 PM ...