Us AND Them - by Shawn Sobers
An enquiry into how Art educators negotiate popular approaches to student creativity - A Guide

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

 

 

 

 

Other types of 'problem' work

Brief summary of interviews responses

Every subject area that was consulted for this study had examples of types and of work and approaches that would be cause for more challenging tutorials and student development.

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In must be stressed though, that the emphasis from the majority of tutors was that nothing was a definite 'No', and 'out of bounds', and that the student's approach to that work would be much more of an issue to challenge, rather than just the form and style itself.

In addition to those already mentioned in the previous interviews, here is a brief list:

Illustration
- cartoon style drawing
- fantasy art
- drawings from other people's photographs, drawings or paintings
- cars (and other "adolescent" boys art)

Fashion & Textiles
- clubwear
- embroidered cushions (and other "twee" objects)

Graphic Design
- graffiti
- CD covers (if not part of a whole design "campaign")
- advertising (if not part of a whole design "campaign")

3D
- unimaginative pottery

 

Though not exclusively, it is interesting to see how many of them are connected with Popular Culture in some way. Taken as a whole list, including all the other examples mentioned in the previous interviews, I feel it would be of benefit if there was an umbrella definition or term which encapsulates this idea.

I will attempt to do this in the Conclusion.


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