Abstract: This article examines relationship between reflecting and making in context of new institutional connection between research and art/design. The article argues that while this new dispensation offers exciting possibilities for fruitful cross- and interdisciplinary development, caution is necessary to ensure that artistic domain retains level of autonomy within broader university.
For elucidation, article initially looks to history of education in our fields and to Pierre Bourdieu's account of early moments of autonomization of artistic field, in his critique of scholastic disposition. Bourdieu recognises a repression of material determinations of symbolic practices within those developments: in effect, repression of those embodied, situated, and practical aspects of art and design production. He regards such repression as trait of broader academy, both then and in subsequent and recent periods. The article argues that this attitude still provides impetus for what James Elkins refers to as the incommensurability of studio art production and university life.
The article further argues that parity of esteem between reflecting and making is vital not only for sake of stability of fields of art and design but for ongoing development of broader university. In this argument article looks to work of John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-10-21
Language: en
Type: article
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