What Do Artists Know?

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

James Elkins

The Seminars

1 Histories of Studio Art Teaching

2 What Parts of Those Histories Are Relevant?

3 The Possibility of a Book on Art Teaching Worldwide

4 Knowledge, Part 1

5 Knowledge, Part 2

6 The First-Year Program

7 The BFA Degree

8 The MFA Degree

9 The PhD Degree

Assessments

Areti Adamopoulou

Ciarín Benson

Andrew Blackley

Jan Baetens

Robert Nelson

Bert Taken and Jeroen Boomgaard

William Conger

Anders Dahlgren

Michael Fotiadis

Tom McGuirk

George Smith

Martin Søberg

Su Baker

Gary Willis

Yeung Yang

Louisa Avgita

Rina Arya

Brad Buckley and John Conomos

Charles Green

Hákan Nilsson

Laurie Fendrich and Peter Plagens

Janneke Wesseling

Vanalyne Green

Glenn Adamson

Henk Slager

Christopher Csikszentmihályi

Marta Edling

Sir Christopher Frayling

Miguel González Virgen

R.E.H. Gordon

Barbara Jaffee

William Marotti

Saul Ostrow

Daniel Palmer

Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Howard Singerman

Ann Sobiech Munson

Roy Sorenson

Hilde Van Gelder

Frank Vigneron

Frances Whitehead

Afterword

Howard Singerman

Notes on the Contributors

Index

“This book asks one of the most important questions in contemporary art, and James Elkins's way of asking it is idiosyncratic, original, and inclusive. Anyone who is interested in the intelligence of art, or in the idea of art as a process of enquiry, will find this book informative and engrossing. What Do Artists Know? is a must for graduate art students, emerging artists, and those faculty who currently think they know all they need to know.”

—Timothy Emlyn Jones, Dean of the Burren College of Art, Ireland