The near-destruction in the western world of a centuries-long tradition of visual education could be described – hyperbolically but not misleadingly – as having been accomplished overnight. The inherited gifts of that tradition are now being casually, ungratefully and even malevolently thrown away. In its chronologically long-range survey, What Happened to Art Education? provides the… Continue reading Eric Coombes: The Destruction of Art Education and Its Implications for School Pupils
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Beyond criticism, or, Notes from fantasy island (a response to Criticism and the collapse of culture)
Artist Paul Wilks responds to Eric Coombes’s tour de force of an essay (Criticism and the collapse of culture, The Jackdaw Mar-Apr 2011) Matthijs Van Boxsel cites, in The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity, a ‘Fame Machine’ devised by Villiers de l’Isle Adam, (1883) in which fame could be manufactured ‘by organic means’. Simply put, the ‘machine’… Continue reading Beyond criticism, or, Notes from fantasy island (a response to Criticism and the collapse of culture)