1st Edition
Finding Art's Place Experiments in Contemporary Education and Culture
By Nicholas Paley
Copyright 1995
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Finding Art's Place showcases three artistic/educational experiments located outside of school settings. Nicholas Paley presents the texts, voices and the teaching and learning practices of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival); the video work of Sadie Benning, the adolescent filmmaker who has won critical acclaim for her sensitive self-explorations of her lesbian sexuality; and the... Read more
1. Positionings; 2. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.; 3. Sadie Benning; 4. Shooting Back; 5. Partitives.
Biography
Nicholas Paley is Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Preparation and Special Education at the George Washington University.
"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)
