Finding Art's Place : Experiments in Contemporary Education and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415906067 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 224 str.

Nicholas Paley;Paley Nicholas

Opis

This volume showcases three artistic and educational experiments: Nicholas Paley presents the texts, voices, and teaching and learning practices of Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) and their artistic/literary workshop for urban youth in New York's South Bronx; the video work of Sadie Benning, the adolescent film maker who has won critical acclaim for her sensitive explorations of her lesbian sexuality; and the photographic work of Jim Hubbard, who shares his expertise with homeless and urban children in Washington, D.C., through his organization, The Shooting Back Education and Media Center. This book explores the many ways education occurs in each of these experiments, allowing the children and young adults, their mentors and their work to speak for themselves about their experiences. Central to all three experiments is the construction of representations and self-representations of children and young adults struggling with the realities of cultural production in assymmetrical educational spaces in order to flourish academically, artistically and psychically.

Recenzje

"Paley's book documents his investigation of the "educational forces that engage children with the arts outside the academy"...Instrumental values ascribe developmental, intellectual, and expressive advantages to the study of art...He acknowledges the important role of community in shaping young people's world views, and he depicts their art activities as essential to their lives. In describing and analyzing the work of three different youth art initiatives, Paley presents children's artistic activity as a legitimate cultural contribution..." -- Journal of Educational Thought, Winter '96
"The critical core of Paley's premise is engaging: his positionings of the young people he discusses as art practitioners subverts our response to them as students, victims, or simply precocious teens. His introduction situates their projects in a theoretical discourse, consciously removing the trite language of art education from our reception of them. In examining each experiment, Paley uses voices not only of critics, scholars and mentors but also of the young practitioners themselves, showing us not only what these children have been taught, but, more important, what they've learned." -- ookForum (ArtForum)

Spis treści

1. Positionings; 2. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.; 3. Sadie Benning; 4. Shooting Back; 5. Partitives.

O autorze

Nicholas Paley is Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Preparation and Special Education at the George Washington University.