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Socially Relevant Practice In Art, Culture, And Environment, Nancy R. Johnson
Socially Relevant Practice In Art, Culture, And Environment, Nancy R. Johnson
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
What is socially relevant practice? From my perspective, socially relevant practice has to do with making knowledge available to students that enables them to know about social institutions and contexts associated with the visual arts. In other words, the students are provided with experiences that lead them to an understanding of the phenomenon of art in culture and society so that they can assess and decide what their own relationship will be to concepts and objects comprising the visual arts.
Marginal Images: Art And Ideology In The School, Dan Nadaner
Marginal Images: Art And Ideology In The School, Dan Nadaner
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Art has come to connote something that is eclectic and unpredictable. Art may be concerned with the aesthetic organization of visual elements, or it may defy conventional aesthetics; it may seek to interpret visual experience, or it may interpret psychological phenomenon that have no visual manifestation; it may have significant social content, or it may not. Art defies generalizations about its form, but welcomes more readily a characterization of its spirit. Art is inquiring, open-ended, illuminating, often startling. Art is very close to the central concerns and experiential reality of the artist. While it is increasingly difficult to say what …