Notes below are all on reading the extract from ‘Art History: The Basics by Grant Pooke and Diana Newall, 2008, Abingdon:Routledge’.
New Words List:
Acquiescence –
Duplicity –
Arbitrary –
‘The academy’? –
Hegemonic –
Theories or Concepts to research:
What is the ‘Institutional Theory of Art’?
A little bit of ‘research’, by that I mean googling, leads me to some websites, one a postgraduate research piece about ‘The Artworld and The Institutional Theory of Art: an Analytic Confrontation, by Massimiliano Lacertosa’, see link below:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/rsa/journalofgraduateresearch/edition-8/file102672.pdf
And the other the Standford Encylopedia of Philosophy, see link below:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/
Both note two philosophers, Arthur Danto & George Dickie, as theorists of Art who offer more modern ideas on art. One Arthur Danto is the founder of Insitutional Art theories – seems to be concerned with how art institutions create a sense of culture which influences the work of artists.
I leave my research there because I’m not sure these are good sources or not! I’m going to buy the Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms and see if that helps…
Interesting to see the distinguishing of craft from art. Also to read that, that distinction was clearer in previous periods than now, where perhaps our definition of art has become so broad that it’s too encompassing and maybe we’ve lowered the standards.