Philosophy of the Art School

Taylor & Francis

A Philosophy of the Art SchoolAuthor(s): Michael Newall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138615984, 978-1138615984\nSynopsis\n*Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics 2019 Outstanding Monograph Prize*\n\nUntil now, research on art schools has been largely occupied with the facts of particular schools and teachers. This book presents a philosophical account of the underlying practices and ideas that have come to shape contemporary art school teaching in the UK, US and Europe. It analyses two models that, hidden beneath the diversity of contemporary artist training, have come to dominate art schools. The first of these is essentially an old approach: a training guided by the artistic values of a single artist-teacher. The second dates from the 1960s, and is based around the group crit, in which diverse voices contribute to an artists development. Understanding the underlying principles and possibilities of th.