101 Things to Learn in Art School - Rilegato

White, Kit

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ISBN 10: 0262016214 ISBN 13: 9780262016216

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 2011

Riassunto

Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.

What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist. Complementing each of the 101 succinct texts is an equally expressive drawing by the artist, often based on a historical or contemporary work of art, offering a visual correlative to the written thought. “Art can be anything” is illustrated by a drawing of Duchamp's famous urinal; a description of chiaroscuro art is illuminated by an image “after Caravaggio”; a lesson on time and media is accompanied by a view of a Jenny Holzer projection; advice about surviving a critique gains resonance from Piero della Francesca's arrow-pierced Saint Sebastian.

101 Things to Learn in Art School offers advice about the issues artists confront across all artistic media, but this is no simple handbook to making art. It is a guide to understanding art as a description of the world we live in, and it is a guide to using art as a medium for thought. And so this book belongs on the reading list of art students, art teachers, and artists, but it also belongs in the library of everyone who cares about art as a way of understanding life.

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Recensione:

"This small book, just 6 inches square, excels in presenting ideas that both artists and designers, at all stages of their careers, cannot be reminded of too often." --Interior Design

"Everyone craves useful wisdom, right? Especially when they're young, and even more especially if they want to become one of those modern alchemists known as visual artists. Well, here it is: page for impeccably crafted page, the best, most thoughtful and lucid primer available for any young (or old) would-be maker of art." --Kurt Andersen , novelist ( Heyday, Turn of the Century) and public radio host ( Studio 360)

There is a great myth that somehow rules constrain creativity. With grace and wit, Kit White's new book dismantles this received idea, and many others along the way. If the cardinal rule of writing is 'show, don't tell,' Kit White has done exactly that -- he shows us what art-making is by example as much as through the rich content of this incisive book." --Polly Apfelbaum , artist

"... White suggests that although the book was developed with art students and teachers in mind, it is not just intended for those readers. Rather, the book is really for everyone who cares about art and the way it enriches our being . I tend to agree. Anyone who has every visited an art museum, made art, or read about it could learn something from this little book. Its lessons may, at times, be well-worn, but there is something in White s delivery that voices them afresh and with new meaning." --Beth Williamson, Cassone

There is a great myth that somehow rules constrain creativity. With grace and wit, Kit White's new book dismantles this received idea, and many others along the way. If the cardinal rule of writing is 'show, don't tell,' Kit White has done exactly that -- he shows us what art-making is by example as much as through the rich content of this incisive book." --Polly Apfelbaum , artist

L'autore:

Kit White is an artist and Professor of Painting at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Guggenheim Museum.

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• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0262016214
• ISBN 13: 9780262016216
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224