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Vienna, Paris, Berlin: The Golden Age Of European Cabaret, Agnieszka Taborska, William Damkoehler, Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers, Georgie Stout, Mark Borok, Michael Zimmerman, Bill Gold, Charles Oestreicher, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Ed Hemingway, Holly Heerens, Eugene Mollica, Susan Unger, Michelle Talbot, Sarah Bishop, Malcom Coelho, Heather Frith, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Jacques Prevert, Don Keefer, Emliy Cohen, Martha Crawford, Susan Becker, Hanns Eisler, Molly Komacker, Vivienne Cho, Carsten Stehr

Programs

Program for the second annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar in the Pit. Design and layout by Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers and Georgie Stout.

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Risd Voice January 27, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 27, 1988, includes articles on an upcoming lecture by AIDS reporter Randy Shilts, issues with Wintersession registration, Architecture students allegedly cheating on a midterm exam, surplus funds from the student activity fee, and a program on rape, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Art, Football And The Politics Of Recognition, Pete Helzer, Helen Liggett

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Richard Brown, Professor of Art History at Pacific Lutheran University, recently published an article synoptically titled "Regionalism, a Tenacious Myth.” Most surprising was that it appeared in Signature, a low budget Northwest arts newspaper out of Seattle, Washington. The appeal of Signature is its plebeian accessibility: descriptive reviews, pragmatic advice on competitions, personality profiles, and an unpretentious gallery guide. For example, it is the perfect place to find the latest word on the Snohomish County Craft Guild. In the differentiation between theory and practice, Signature represented the voice of practice, that is, until Professor Brown's theory piece let down the …

Research For Existential Choice, Karen A. Hamblen

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Chet Bowers (1984) has developed a theory of how a critical consciousness of our cultural typifications can be developed through an in-depth and elaborated understanding of aspects of a given situation or problem. In this paper, his theory is applied to the role research plays in art education. It is proposed that our existential choices in art education are directly proportionate to the amount and complexity of the research we have available and the extent to which we understand and can apply this research for specific purposes. The lack of research in essential instructional areas as well as the lack …

Book Review: Art In Focus, Patrick Taylor

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Art In Focus, Gene Mittler, Glencoe Publishing Company, Peoria, IL, 1986.

Book Review: In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory And Women’S Development, Beverly Wilson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Carol Gilligan, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982.

Editor's Statement And Table Of Contents

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Vince Lanier once said in his inimitably leading way (with that gleam in his eye) that art is what hangs on the walls in the museums and galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Unfortunately, in light of the Art in America syndrome which dominates not only the art community but also seemingly the art education community, the joke may be on you, Vince. You may be right. Art reflects and perpetuates culture as does education. Culture, as an important aspect of human evolution must have a wide gene pool of ideas to maintain the healthy balance necessary for its …

Abstract Expressionism And Art Education: Formalism And Self-Expression As Curriculum Ideology, Kerry Freedman

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

In the 1940's and 1950's, formalism and self-expression theories about abstract expressionism were incorporated into art education. However, as these products of the art community became a part of curriculum, the social and political foundations of the art and the theories were ignored. A school art style was emphasized that contained only selected elements of Greenberg's formalist analysis of abstract expressionism. Curriculum also contained a reduction of Rosenberg's theory of expressive process to some pseudo-expressive technical characteristics. While the argument is not made that there was a studied and analytical reinterpretation of these critics' theories in school, the theories represented …

Seeking Cultural Understanding: Knowing Through The Art Of The Picturebook As One Of Five Modalities, Rogena M. Degge, Kenneth Marantz

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Caught in the maelstrom of scholarly debate about cross-cultural values, we seek some straws for our intellectual salvation. Groups of theoreticians and practitioners, like schools of fish roiling in the seas, create waves. Some groups, like those who supported the exhibition of Primitive and Modern artifacts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, are historical revisionists seeking new values through the alleged "influences and affinities" they attempt to demonstrate. Others more mundanely offer youngsters cardboard and paint so they may produce their own Kachina dolls in order to come to grips with the fundamental values of an …

The Interpretation Of Modern Art—What Is Possible When Dealing With The Explication Of Art, Heinrich Kupffer

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The attempt to interpret modern art comes from different approaches and moves along several lines of thought. Generally speaking, together these approaches leave no doubt that a linguistic explanation is possible and legitimate. This assumption, which forms a bridge between lord and picture, is a decisive, often uncontested problem of aesthetic logic. Spectators should watch out for the traps and fallacies. They may expect that the clear statement a work of art unambiguously makes for them, the unseemingly apparent interpretation of the work, leads back to a lack of understanding of the "real" thoughts and precise statement of the artistic …

Art Educators’ Responsibility To Cultural Diversity: Or “Where Are You Goin Wid Alla My Stuff?”, Kristen G. Congdon

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The responsibility of art educators to recognize and study the art and context of as many populations as possible is examined in this article. Examples of how artistic expressions have been borrowed, used in different contexts and otherwise removed from their original cultural context are given, and examples of ways that art teachers can help to recognize origins and the artistic functions of many cultures are suggested. By placing art in its context and studying it as it changes, students may begin to understand the artistic source, appreciate the importance of the creative context, and begin to see multi-cultural dimensions …

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

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Aesthetic Socialization And The Young Child, Sally Hagaman

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

An examination of the process of aesthetic socialization at the preschool level reveals communication, through direct and indirect teacher behaviors and classroom environment, of "taken for granted" aesthetic assumptions. Examples, such as the use of naturalism or realism as the major criterion for judging art and reinforcement of social skills like diligence and neatness through art activities, are examined in light of educationist and teacher contexts. Implications include the need for examination of aesthetic assumptions and their transmission by art educators who work with young children, train teachers, and/or plan art curricula.

Another Look At The Aesthetics Of The Popular Arts, Edward G. Lawry

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

About twenty years ago, Abraham Kaplan delivered a lively and memorable paper to the American Philosophical Association on the aesthetics of the popular arts. Appearing during the heyday of formalist criticism of the arts in America, the clear condemnation of the popular arts in his opening paragraph surprised no one. But many things have happened in the last twenty years to make us want to rethink the casual identification of popular art with "dis-value" that Kaplan takes for granted: the rise in popularity of folk music, the transformation of rock and roll by the Beatle's and others, the advent of …

Understanding Popular Culture: The Uses And Abuses Of Fashion Advertising, Mary Stokrocki

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Today's young people are bombarded by messages. They should be taught to evaluate what they hear, to understand how ideas are clarified or distorted, and to explore how the accuracy and reliability of an oral (visual) message can be tested (Boyer, 1983, p.92). Students are often manipulated by media messages and they are unaware of the uses and abuses of the media by advertisers. In many ways such manipulation makes students dependent on materialistic rewards, regardless of moral concern. As a remedy, Lanier (1966) advocates developing a critical consciousness, "an informed awareness of the social forces which oppress our lives." …

Toward An Aesthetic Androgynous Mentality In Society: A Personal View, Duke Madenfort

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

When I was an adolescent, I spent an unusual amount of time, indoors, alone, drawing and painting. I preferred staying inside doing art to going outside and playing games like baseball and football with other boys. The fact that drawing and painting, as traditionally and conventionally practiced, are solitary acts and done mostly in studios away from the distractions of the outer world and the, to me, boring talk of "ordinary" people didn't bother me at all.

Culture Change: The Work Of C.A. Bowers In Educational Policy, Nancy R. Johnson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

C.A. Bowers has proposed a perspective on educational theory and practice involving cultural literacy and communicative competence. Bowers' proposal addresses culture change through a critical examination of activities in the school curriculum. An overview of this perspective and its possible use in art education is presented.

Book Review: Art In Context, Donald Soucy

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Art In Context, Jack A. Hobbs, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,San Diego, 3rd Edition, 1985.

Book Review: Companeras: Women, Art And Social Change In Latin America, Helane Horner

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Companeras: Women, Art, and Social Change in Latin America, Betty LaDuke, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1985.

Book Review: Thinking About Art, Laurie Gomon Ring

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Thinking About Art, Edmund Burke Feldman, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.

Book Review: Ben Steele: Prisoner Of War, T. A.

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Book review for Ben Steele: Prisoner of War, Alan Newberg (Editor), Eastern Montana College.

Commentary, Jan Jagodzinski

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The questions Professor Kupffer's article raise concerning the relationship between image and the word, have been, by and large, ignored in modern aesthetic thought. An artificial separation of these two media of expression had been, since the Renaissance, characteristic of western philosophical thought. Leonardo, Cellini and Michelangelo all wrote treatises In order to place art on the same footing as the literati's words. A quick scan of the philosophical record suggests that the deep schism persists between the image and the word which manifests itself as a bifurcation between rationality and irrationality. To name but a few of the more …

1988 Portfolio, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

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Risd Voice November 30, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 30, 1987, includes articles on an arts and humanities lecture, a drunk driving accident, the RISD Nads, a columnist's friend who has AIDS, and a self-help program called "Lifespring," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

From St. Petersburg To Krushchev's Boot, James O. Barnhill, Justin Kerr, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Jennifer Bull, Marguerite White, Nancy Bach, Steve Overman, Josh Pearson, Jean Wasil, Mark Borok, Vivienne Cho, Karen Frishmann, Heather Firth, Lisa Hurwitz, Treva Offutt, Beth Whitney, Sarah Bishop, Richard Ross, Cara Reische, Walter Clarke, Rene Dimanche Jr., David Ross, Malcom Coelho, Andrew Sklar, Michael Wodkowski, Susan Ockerse, Paul Scagnetti, Martha Crawford, Holly Su Heerens

Programs

Program for the first annual RISD Cabaret held in Memorial Hall. Design and layout by Justin Kerr.

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Risd Voice October 28, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 28, 1987, includes articles on the walk up to the quad, safe sex and AIDS, a new RISD/Brown croquet club, a screening of a film by RISD student Zachary Straits, Monday Night Football, and a Halloween costume contest, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 7, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 7, 1987, includes articles on student organization RISD Solidarity, a weekend to raise awareness about drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS, California, and an architecture forum on "context, continuity, and change," along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice May 20, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 20, 1987, includes articles on a symposium at Brown on the postmodern novel, the locked book collection at the RISD Library, the RISD Annual Senior Film Show, issues in the Painting Department, safe sex guidelines, and the Student Board, apathy at RISD, along with editorials, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 22, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 22, 1987, includes articles on a new student community engagement group called "RISD Solidarity," the end of the Mellon Lectures series, an exhibition featuring RISD women's art, scholarly opportunities at Brown, ways for RISD to engage with the community, the termination of Graphic Design instructor Don Adleta, a proposed bill to divest Rhode Island state funds from South Africa, a project to discover why American towns were named after European cities, and a RISD student who's also a Grateful Dead roadie, along with editorials, …

Risd Voice March 20, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 20, 1987, includes articles on a course that gets students talking to political refugees and homeless people around Providence, the opening of the new RISD Store, a conference on postmodernism at Yale, and the lack of extracurricular activities at RISD, along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.