ART SUBJECTS: MAKING ARTISTS IN THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, by Howard Singerman (University of California Press)
Although he holds a master’s of fine arts in sculpture, Mr. Singerman cannot carve, cast, weld, or model in clay. An assistant professor of art history at the University of Virginia, he writes that universities teach students not to master a set of skills, but to create self-conscious statements of their position in the history of art. Their audience is other university-trained artists, he says, and their work is always “ideological art.”
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