About this title: Nearly every artist under the age of fifty in the United States today has a Master of Fine Arts degree. Howard Singerman's thoughtful study is the first to place that degree in its proper historical framework and ideological context. Arguing that where artists are trained makes a difference in the forms and meanings they produce, he shows how the university, with its disciplined organization of knowledge and demand for language, played a critical role in the production of modernism in the visual arts. Now it is shaping what we call postmodernism: like postmodernist art, the graduate ...
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Binding: Softcover.
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780520215023ISBN:0520215028
Description: VG-(Front cover and first page bent at right side; Library stamp to first page) Discusses the history of art education and argues that where artists are trained determines the forms and meanings they go on to produce. Yellow illus. wraps; 296 pp.; 14 bw figures. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780520215023ISBN:0520215028
Description: New. "Few sites within the university open a richer critical reflection than that of the M.F.A., with its complex crossing of professionalism, theory, humanistic knowledge, and the absolute exposure of practice. Howard Singerman's "Art Subjects does a mag... read more
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