Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University

by Howard Singerman

Book Overview

Nearly every artist under the age of fifty in the United States today has a Master of Fine Arts degree. Howard Singerman's thoughtful study is the first to place that degree in its proper historical framework and ideological context. Arguing that where artists are trained makes a difference in the forms and meanings they produce, he shows how the university, with its disciplined organization of knowledge and demand for language, played a critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520215028
• ISBN13: 9780520215023
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An honest condemnation of studio art training in the US

This book is a must read for any academic who thinks they know all about training art students. Their eyes will be opened to the chicanery and mischief that academic art programs have foisted on their students for the last 60 years.