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CONTENTS:
Home
- Essay Question and Outline
1.
Introduction: The Art of Smoking
-Art today
-Art's growing family
2. Lecturers'
Approaches
- On Individuality
- On Clichés
- On Commercialism
- On Criteria
- Summary
3. Students Challenging Tutors
4. Future Challenges
5. Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Self Evaluation
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High Art, Low Art
Brief summary and interview responses
- Surprisingly, this research hasn't taken me down the discussion
route of High and Low Art as much as I thought it would.
Whilst every lecturer spoken to acknowledged that the concept
does still exist in both staff and students to some extent, the
overall consensus was that it was this not the prime reason why
they would have problems with certain student approaches to project
work; being more about issues of individuality, originality, idea
development and intellectual engagement. Also, of consideration
was how the students intends to put their work in context, and
was it appropriate for the project brief.
- It was acknowledged however that in some minor cases academic
snobbery and high/low ideas may still influence tutors
perception of their students' ideas. This, in combination with
some tutors actually being "frightened" of particular
student approaches due to them not understanding it, not knowing
the technology, or that the work is to connected with "popular
culture" (which bring us back neatly to High Art, Low
Art concepts.)
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- The media lecturer interviewed said when it comes to television,
on a personal level, he is only interested in quality. That there
is far too much on all the channels which he considerd "not
very good" and that quality should matter. That is "high
& low culture as I understand it", and although not entirely
exclusive, this must be of relevance to students, and they must
be aware of those debates.
- That rather than students being completely postmodern and accepting
everything they see in a gallery as "art" - that many
students tend to be still be quite "traditional" and
argue about the "Sistine Chapel being more art than a biro
on a plinth in a gallery". (This is a rare example of Popular
Culture and Popular Opinion adreeing with eachother, but does
that mean that are necessarily right?)
- It was acknowledged by all spoken to that no one subject area,
style or genre held the High Art mantle in the way that painting
and sculpture used to, and was now the territory of all creative
areas. That High Art, Low Art ideas are more based on the context
in which the work is presented rather than the work genre itself.
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