ArtCenter Talks

Name: ArtCenter Talks
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781941701522
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Graduate Seminar, The First Decade 1986-1995

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ArtCenter Talks offers a unique glimpse into the Graduate Seminar series at the ArtCenter College of Design, featuring transcripts from over 300 talks by artists and critics. The volume paints a vivid portrait of a dynamic student body and explores themes such as the meaning of being an artist, the evolving role of art in society, and the artist's place within academic settings. Introduced in 1986 by Richard Hertz, it marks the first decade of the Graduate Art Department with insightful discussions complemented by archival slide reproductions, bringing the spirit of these seminal seminars to life. An introduction by prestigious artist Stan Douglas and forewords by Diana Thater and Jason E. Smith frame the book as an essential document of contemporary art pedagogy.
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This volume will appeal to students, educators, and practitioners in contemporary art and design, as well as readers interested in art pedagogy and the history of influential artistic communities.

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The transcripts in this volume are taken from the Graduate Seminar, which organised over 300 artist and critics talks. They reveal not only the influential pedagogy behind ArtCenter, but also paint a portrait of the student body - a group that includes numerous influential contemporary artists.

Discussions between students and faculty members range from what it means to be an artist and the changing role of art in society, to how artists function within an academic setting.

Introduced in 1986 as an initiative by Richard Hertz (Chair, Academic Studies, 1979 - 2003), the ArtCenter College of Design Graduate Art Department celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2016. This book documents the first decade of the department's existence by presenting a selection from over three hundred talks.

This volume also includes reproductions of slides used by participants at the time. Bringing the presentations to life, these archival images offer a sense of the context and spirit of the original seminars.

Together, an introduction by Stan Douglas - acclaimed contemporary artist and ArtCenter Graduate faculty member - and a foreword by Diana Thater and Jason E. Smith, Chair and co-chair of Graduate Art, present this volume as a crucial introduction to the pedagogy of contemporary art.

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Recent Press on Stan Douglas
Art in America notes that "Since the 1980s, when he was a key figure among a group of emerging photo-conceptualists in Vancouver, Stan Douglas has depicted the social fissures of the postwar period." – Harel Rintzler

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781941701522

Publisher: David Zwirner

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 January 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: David Zwirner

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Contributors:

Edited by Stan Douglas

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 900g

Pages: 368

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver) has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of both analog and digital technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres and borrows from classic literary works to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, reimagined narratives that pertain to specific places or historical events. Since 2009, Douglas has been a core faculty member of the Graduate Art Department of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Jason E. Smith is currently associate chair of the Graduate Art MFA program at ArtCenter College of Design. His writing and research are largely concerned with contemporary art and aesthetics, philosophy, and political thought. He has published in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Critical Inquiry, Parrhesia, Radical Philosophy, and South Atlantic Quarterly, among other journals and publications.

Diana Thater is a Los Angeles-based artist who has created pioneering film, video, and installation-based works since the early 1990s. Her primary emphasis is on the tension between the natural environment and mediated reality, and by extension, between tamed and wild, and science and magic. Thater earned her MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design. She now serves as chair of ArtCenter's Graduate Art MFA program.