This paper presents a historical account of the art curriculum, in order to understand what is being taught in art today. It explains how present-day conceptions of art owe much to Romanticism and the social order which emerged in Europe under the influence of the Enlightenment. These conceptions have been tempered and disrupted by a hundred years of modernism, following from the 1960s by contemporary art. The art curriculum owed much to a combination of apprenticeships to teach skills and art academies to teach drawing and aesthetics. Only in the twentieth century did modern art exert an influence and when it did it was in the form of self-expression and formalism. Both of these have been challenged by contemporary art, which embraces mechanised means of producing art, places the emphasis on ideas, theories and contextual knowledge while subverting some traditional hierarchies. Contemporary art influenced significant art education movements, such as discipline-based and issues-based, learning about visual culture, as well as the use of mechanical means of making art, such as lens-based media. The core of art education is now the ability to explain, contextualise and even theorise. This should abet but not eclipse some of the things art can be, such as thought provoking, entertaining and moving.
목차
Abstract Introduction Modernity Postmodernity The Concept of Art within Modernity Two Ruptures Art Education before Modernism The Influence of Modernism on Art Education The Influence of Contemporary Art Learning about Art or Learning through Art Conclusion References
키워드
art educationarthistory of art educationart curriculumcontemporary art
저자
Nicholas Houghton [ University for the Creative Arts ]
한국국제미술교육학회 [Korean Society for Education through Art]
설립연도
2000
분야
예술체육>미술
소개
한국의 미술교육학계에는 과거 일본을 통해 왜곡되어 들어온 서양의 미술교육 이론이 정설로 자리잡힌 상태에서 서양의 새로운 미술교육 이론이 혼합되는 양상이 지속되고 있다. 그래서 효율적인 실제의 개발 또한 지극히 어려운 답보 상태에 머물러 있다. 따라서 미술교육의 학문적 발전을 이룩하기 위해서는 선진 세계의 이론을 정확하게 받아들여 이를 통해 한국의 실정에 맞게 변용해야 할 것이라는 판단하에 미술교육의 학문적 발전을 도모하기 위해 InSEA(International Society for Education through Art)의 한국지회를 설립하게되었다. InSEA는 UNESCO의 협력기구로 1954년 결성되어 현재 80여개국이 참여하고 있는 범세계적인 미술교육 단체로 미국 지회인 USSEA와 캐나다 지회인 CSEA를 두고 있다.