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Working With People To Make Art: Oral History, Artistic Practice, And Art Education, Dipti Desai
Working With People To Make Art: Oral History, Artistic Practice, And Art Education, Dipti Desai
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
In recent years, some contemporary artists have used oral history methods as an integral part of their artistic practice. Oral history emerged in the United States as a distinct historical method with the establishment of the first organized oral history project in 1948 by Alan Nevin at Columbia University in New York. It gradually wrenched itself from its elitist origins of documenting stories of prominent white men to becoming a populist approach that draws attention to ordinary people’s lives, perceptions, and experiences of an event. Based on interviews conducted over a short period of time, oral histories’ primary contribution to …