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Creating Community Through Art: Two Research Project Reviews, Seymour Simmons Iii Jan 1998

Creating Community Through Art: Two Research Project Reviews, Seymour Simmons Iii

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Against a background of contemporary social problems and concerns, this article considers the role of the arts in creating community. It begins with a synopsis of Ellen Dissanayake’s anthropological perspective on the importance of the arts in human evolution, human development, and premodern societies. It then considers current approaches to community-building through the arts based on two recent research projects done by Harvard Project Zero and its affiliates. One project, the Lincoln Center Institute Arts-in-Education Survey Study, reviewed twenty-two arts-in-education programs including community art centers, cultural centers, arts-infusion schools, and state and local arts councils. The other, Project Co-Arts, involved …


Sugar And Spice And Everything: Reflections On A Feminist Aesthetic, Deborah Smith-Shank Jan 1998

Sugar And Spice And Everything: Reflections On A Feminist Aesthetic, Deborah Smith-Shank

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Over the past 25 years, feminist art, art criticism, and action have allowed insights in to the work of women artists. Because culture imposes an assumed unity on a diversity of codes and has a naturalizing function, it makes the status quo appear as given and enduring. Feminist artwork disrupts common cultural assumptions by purposefully calling into question the arbitrariness of cultural sign systems. It brings into the conversation those cultural signs which are routinely unexamined and forces a look. This article is about feminist artwork, feminist context (s), and my own development as a woman, artist, teacher, and participant …


Volume 17 Cover Jan 1997

Volume 17 Cover

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

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The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education Jan 1997

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

No abstract provided.


Art, Education, And The Bomb: Reflections On An International Children’S Peace Mural Project, Tom Anderson Jan 1997

Art, Education, And The Bomb: Reflections On An International Children’S Peace Mural Project, Tom Anderson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

As a community muralist (T. Anderson, 1985) and contextualist I believe that the purpose of art is communication from one human being to another about things that count (R. Anderson, 1990; Dissanayake, 1988; Lippard, 1990). This does not mean that we disregard the aesthetic component—the “wonder”—in an artwork. Rather, it implies that the aesthetic serves an extrinsic function beyond its supposed raison d’être. That function, which is usually both prosaic and symbolic, is to serve as a marker that in some way defines the people who make, use, and view artworks or aesthetically framed objects (R. Anderson, 1990). Art is …


The Perception Of Non-Perception: Lessons For Art Education With Downcast Eyes (Part One: Trompe-L’Oeil And The Question Of Radical Evil), Jan Jagodzinski Jan 1997

The Perception Of Non-Perception: Lessons For Art Education With Downcast Eyes (Part One: Trompe-L’Oeil And The Question Of Radical Evil), Jan Jagodzinski

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The Roman historian Pliny recounts a story that occurred during Periclean Athens. I will utilize this story, as a trope to undertake an interrogation of perception as it is commonly understood and currently practiced by art educators in schools. In order to deconstruct vision/blindness, or the perception/non-perception binary, I have examined the psychoanalytic paradigm of Jacques Lacan. His current interpreters provided the conceptual tools for such an undertaking. Given that the question of representation has become a key sign-post of postmodernism, art educators must conceptualize a trajectory for itself in the 21st century. Part One of such a trajectory questions …


Photography(S) And Cultural Invisibility: Symptoms And Strategies, Michael J. Emme Jan 1997

Photography(S) And Cultural Invisibility: Symptoms And Strategies, Michael J. Emme

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

What does it mean to be visible? We cross paths and we see each other. Simple. Why bother asking the question? The fact that artists and cultural theorists have for the past decade or more been energetically pursuing precisely this question of visibility is one of the dominant features of the visual arts today. At the heart of this collective inquiry is a concern to discover the social nature of both vision and pictures. This concern rises out of the almost common-sense realization that much of what we “know” about the world we know because of pictures and that despite …


Editorial, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd Jan 1997

Editorial, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The group of six articles in this volume explore the theme “invisible in plain sight.” The authors examine the structures that enable or disable cultural visibility. They question: Who creates the visions of the world? Whose views are pre-empted?


Table Of Contents Jan 1997

Table Of Contents

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Table of contents for The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1997, Number Seventeen.


Televised Gender Roles In Children’S Media: Covert Messages, Gaye Leigh Green Jan 1997

Televised Gender Roles In Children’S Media: Covert Messages, Gaye Leigh Green

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Encountering stereotypes promulgated by media representations is a daily occurrence. Information perpetuated in the media continually influences how people view the world. Female gender roles portrayed in television, for example, have altered from the 1950s stay-at-home mother portrayed by Barbara Billingsley in Leave It To Beaver, to postmodern portrayals of independent actress/mothers such as Jane Seymour. The messages that such diverse personifications suggest of motherhood are equally disparate. While television once perpetuated images of mothers as in the home caregivers, this domestic characterization has evolved into moms who now venture actively into the world.


Living The Discourses, Ed Check, Grace Deniston, Dipti Desai Jan 1997

Living The Discourses, Ed Check, Grace Deniston, Dipti Desai

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Factors of social class, race, gender, and sexuality are important to any understanding of the social processes of art. Often, art educators discuss these factors in abstract terms, thereby confining discussion in art education to a set of identifiable variables constructed as static, universal, and homogeneous. The particularities of living and working in educational spaces structured along racist, classist, sexist, and homophobic lines remain largely unexplored. Recent scholarship in art education has begun to examine the particularities of these social relations (Garber, 1995; Stuhr, Krug, & Scott, 1995). But the fractures, dangers, and the erasures are not being articulated in …


A Mountain Cultural Curriculum: Telling Our Story, Christine Bellengee Morris Jan 1997

A Mountain Cultural Curriculum: Telling Our Story, Christine Bellengee Morris

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Jim Wayne Miller, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, declared that school children in West Virginia have more exposure to other cultures than they do to their own. His concern was that, “Lack of knowledge about the area’s history helps perpetuate negative stereotypes about the region’s mountain people” (Associated Press, 1994). If the Mountain Culture, to which many of the students belong, is not reflected in the curriculum, their identity, voice, heritage, history, and arts are censored and the Mountain Cultural youth are rendered invisible in their own state. Results from a survey of three elementary schools located in …


Book Reviews: Dennis Fehr, Kris King Fehr, & Karen Keifer-Boyd (Eds.) (2000) Real-World Readings In Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You, Yvonne Gaudelius Jan 1997

Book Reviews: Dennis Fehr, Kris King Fehr, & Karen Keifer-Boyd (Eds.) (2000) Real-World Readings In Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You, Yvonne Gaudelius

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You, Dennis Fehr, Kris King Fehr, Karen Keifer- Boyd (Editors), Falmer Press, New York, 2000.


Contributors Jan 1997

Contributors

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

No abstract provided.


Editorial, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd Jan 1996

Editorial, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

One way to look at the 1995-96 proposed social action through art theme is that issues of relevance continually emerge- that is the action itself. Social action as identified in these articles revolved around the issue of diversity. Some identified differences as an abrupt clash or confrontation, others as a negotiation between worlds. All were concerned that we critically examine the values embedded in images-whether in art history textbooks, everyday images surrounding us via entertainment systems, television, film, or computers; or in "fine" art.


The Gallery, Robert Bersson, Boise Peace Quilt Project, Joan Bonnette, Vaughn Clay, Dipti Desai, Olivia Gude, Drea Howenstein, Rick Lowe's Project Row House, Kristin Rauch Jan 1996

The Gallery, Robert Bersson, Boise Peace Quilt Project, Joan Bonnette, Vaughn Clay, Dipti Desai, Olivia Gude, Drea Howenstein, Rick Lowe's Project Row House, Kristin Rauch

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Images related to Social Action from nine artists.


The Clash Between The Sacred And The Profane: An Examination Of Controversial Art In The Postmodern Era, Rosalie H. Politsky Jan 1996

The Clash Between The Sacred And The Profane: An Examination Of Controversial Art In The Postmodern Era, Rosalie H. Politsky

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Using mythic criticism, this paper examines the current cultural and religious in stability that may serve as the impetus for the appropriation of ancient religious myths and symbols by various visual and performance artists. The paper concludes with implications of ritual, personal mythology, and controversial art for art education.


Discussion And Depictions Of Women In H.W. Janson’S History Of Art, Fourth Edition, Paul E. Bolin Jan 1996

Discussion And Depictions Of Women In H.W. Janson’S History Of Art, Fourth Edition, Paul E. Bolin

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

During the past twenty-five years there have been numerous highly charged and open criticisms levied against the field of art history. These accusations have been launched from a variety of fronts, both within and outside the discipline of art history (Simmons, 1990), with some of these critical questions and subsequent condemnation directed toward textbooks used to teach this subject in traditional courses that survey historical aspects of Western art. A primary criticism of these survey textbooks has been aimed at their lack of attention given to the important work of women artists. The manner in which these criticisms are treated …


Editorial, Elizabeth Hoffman Jan 1996

Editorial, Elizabeth Hoffman

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Anxiously awaiting the responses to the theme for this year's journal-"social action through art"-I envisioned manuscripts from artists, educators, and scholars who were "making it happen." In readying three of the manuscripts for publication, I discovered that what 1 thought was a seductive "call for physical action" was interpreted in a much broader sense. The authors' expansion of the theme coupled with the complexity of issues presented make JSTAE 15/16 an exceptional issue.


Book Reviews: Gómez-Peña, Guillermo (1993). Warrior For Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, And Poetry, Connie M. Landis Jan 1996

Book Reviews: Gómez-Peña, Guillermo (1993). Warrior For Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, And Poetry, Connie M. Landis

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Warrier for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN, 1993.


Violence And Generation X: How The Right Is Managing The Moral Panic Through Television And Teen Films, Jan Jagodzinski Jan 1996

Violence And Generation X: How The Right Is Managing The Moral Panic Through Television And Teen Films, Jan Jagodzinski

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The continual "cultural wars" between "Generation X" ("baby busters" whose birth years begin with 1961, aged 11-35), and New Right "baby boomers" (whose birth years range. From 1946 to 1960), around the issue of violence as represented in the popular cultural forms of film and television provide critically concerned art educators with an opportune moment to examine how conservative rhetoric has made "moral panic" an object of current discourses. This highly-charged debate, now literally and symbolically represented by the censorship that "V-chip" technology provides, is explored in this essay from a seemingly non-populist position given the current tide against the …


Art Education And Technology: These Are The Days Of Miracles And Wonder, Paul Duncum Jan 1996

Art Education And Technology: These Are The Days Of Miracles And Wonder, Paul Duncum

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

This paper examines the impact on human consciousness of the exponential proliferation of electronic images, and offers suggestions concerning how educators should respond. A postmodern critique includes the ideas of an inverted Kantian aesthetics which embraces the everyday, a dramatic compression of space and time, and personal disorientation. A further critique grounds these views of consciousness in new economic arrangements and the rapaciousness of capitalism. I argue that the only viable educational response to this new consciousness is a critical examination of mass media imagery. Basic components of media education in schools are signposts of an appropriate response.


Book Reviews: Guadalupe Rivera And Marie-Pierre Colle (1994); Ignacio Urquiza, Photographer. Frida’S Fiestas: Recipes And Reminiscences Of Life With Frida Kahlo, Elizabeth Garber Jan 1996

Book Reviews: Guadalupe Rivera And Marie-Pierre Colle (1994); Ignacio Urquiza, Photographer. Frida’S Fiestas: Recipes And Reminiscences Of Life With Frida Kahlo, Elizabeth Garber

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Frida's Fiestas: Recipe and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo, Guadalup Rivera and Marie-Pierre Colle, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, New York, 1994.


Feminist Collaboration In The Art Academy, Cynthia Bickley-Green, Anne G. Wolcott Jan 1996

Feminist Collaboration In The Art Academy, Cynthia Bickley-Green, Anne G. Wolcott

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Women's activity in the visual arts both in and outside of the art institutions of Europe and the United States reveals a history of collaboration in artistic production and political activism This paper analyzes the effects of feminist collaboration upon the disciplines of art, the pedagogy of art, and the administration of art institutions. In Part I, the authors review the impact of feminist collaboration in art history, aesthetics, art criticism, and art production. Part II provides examples of collaborative experiences of women in higher education art institutions and in some art communities in the United States, Scandinavia, and Italy. …


Portrait Of The Computer Artist: Between Worlds, Mia Johnson Jan 1996

Portrait Of The Computer Artist: Between Worlds, Mia Johnson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

As a result of ignorance and misconceptions about the nature of computer artwork, the computer artist is misunderstood by practitioners in fine art, art education, science, and industry. This paper enters the world of the computer artist to look at some of the factors which contribute to misperceptions. It examines social issues ranging from the design and use of hardware and software to access issues, and problems with concrete and electronic exhibition venues. It also describes communication barriers in education and the media.


When Art Turns Violent: Images Of Women, The Sexualization Of Violence And Their Implications For Art Education, Yvonne Gaudelius, Juliet Moore Jan 1996

When Art Turns Violent: Images Of Women, The Sexualization Of Violence And Their Implications For Art Education, Yvonne Gaudelius, Juliet Moore

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Approximately two years ago, after viewing a slide of Rubens’ The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, a group of students enrolled in an “art for elementary education majors” course were asked to write an interpretation of this work, as part of a series of art criticism activities that they had engaged in through the semester. Most of the students wrote what might be described as reasonable interpretations in that they discussed the work in formal terms and made judgments about the artwork. However, and this is what is of interest to us in this paper, only two students in …


Editor’S Note: Social Action Through Art, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd Jan 1996

Editor’S Note: Social Action Through Art, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Continuing the tradition, begun with JSTAE 14, The Gallery features visual research, actions, and art that contribute to social change. Nine artists/activists/art educators, many serving as facilitators of projects involving diverse communities, have contributed images for The Gallery. The images direct our attention to issues of racism, exploitation, intolerance, war, world relations, joblessness, homelessness, a damaged infrastructure, women's health, equal rights, and peace.


The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education Jan 1996

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews: Terry Barrett (1994) Criticizing Art: Understanding The Contemporary, John H. White Jr. Jan 1994

Book Reviews: Terry Barrett (1994) Criticizing Art: Understanding The Contemporary, John H. White Jr.

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Terry Barrett, Mayfield Publication Company, Mountain View, 1994.


Book Reviews: Leslie Weisman (1992) Discrimination By Design: A Feminist Critique Of The Man-Made Environment, Joanne K. Guilfoil Jan 1994

Book Reviews: Leslie Weisman (1992) Discrimination By Design: A Feminist Critique Of The Man-Made Environment, Joanne K. Guilfoil

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment, Leslie Weisman, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1992.