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Visual Arts Research
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ISSN (Print) 0736-0770 - ISSN (Online) 2151-8009
Published by U of Illinois Press

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An Everyday Aesthetics, Inexpensive Paintings, and the Study of Art
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  Abstract: Scholarship, research, and teaching about aesthetics and the arts, at least currently in most of the Western world, largely focus on the fine arts, like paintings in museums, symphonies in concert halls, and such. Consequently, discussions of aesthetics arrive at rather esoteric qualities. Paintings, for example, are sublime, harmonious, and transformative, best observed at a “psychic distance,” among other terms far removed from daily experience (unity, balance). (Less cryptic, but still complex and difficult to define, are descriptors like beauty, taste, pleasingness, and pleasure.)Yet most people rarely if ever visit an art museum, perhaps once or twice a year at most, and then for only an hour or two while ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Interfacing Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Pedagogy: An Interview With
Artist-Teacher Chikonzero Chazunguza
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  Abstract: Censorship is a restrictive practice carried out by different agents of society at various degrees of severity. It involves the exercise of measured social control over self-expression in a binary relationship between the artist and the censor. Self-expression is muted by custodians whom Negash (2003, p. 134) calls “guardian[s] of the state and the self-proclaimed defenders of morality.” Conceptually, censorship is “the exclusion of some discourse as the result of a judgment by an authoritative agent based on some ideological predisposition” (Cohen, 2001, p. 8). Comparatively, Jansen (1991, p. 221) conceptualizes censorship as an act that encompasses all socially structured proscriptions or prescriptions which ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Land-Based Art Criticism: (Un)learning Land Through Art
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  Abstract: Art criticism enriches understandings of art through interpretive analysis and aesthetic judgment, providing a deeper appreciation of art as a significant way of critically engaging and responding to social, cultural, and political issues (Barrett, 1994, 2011). Art criticism can enhance students’ critical thinking and knowledge of art, which in turn helps to advance art projects toward social justice (Broome, Pereira, & Anderson, 2018). The social, cultural, and political contexts in which works of art are produced, distributed, and presented are especially important concerns for critical inquiry, as these contexts shape and are shaped by art and the people who view, make, promote, interpret, sell, collect, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Re-introducing ourselves, slowly
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  Abstract: All the pieces in this issue of Visual Arts Research were written, reviewed, and revised while most of us were holed up in our homes trying to simultaneously teach our students remotely and our own kids at the dining room table. Somehow, we found time to assemble our thoughts and write through them in between the blurred gestures of disinfecting our groceries and answering work e-mails in our pajamas. We cooked and baked; researched and made art; walked and binged TV; administered all sorts of business and Zoomed ourselves into an altered state of consciousness.As I was nearing the final touch-ups of this issue, I was sitting in my university office for the first time in over 18 months. I received a text message ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Re(Searching) Meaning: An Aesthetic Approach to Teaching and Learning
Outside of the Box
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  Abstract: I lost my job to a box. At the time, I was working in the role of early childhood art resource teacher for a pre-K (4–5 year-olds) program in a large southwestern U.S. school district. When the box decorated with a friendly owl appeared at the district office, my stomach clenched—a premonition that my life was about to change. My colleagues opened it while I watched from a distance. Inside were neatly packaged lesson plans, filled with predefined activities organized by subject matter, arranged in a linear progression. The plans even provided teachers with what to say, what questions to ask, and how children should respond. The new curriculum appeared attractive for its efficiency and organization and the promise ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Bring Fake News into the World: A Lesson Study Based on the Principles of
Authentic Art Education
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  Abstract: In 2018, pupils of an elementary school in Zwolle, Netherlands, were asked to produce and distribute their own artistic interventions in the form of fake news. This art assignment elicited a broad range of self-directed learning activities: from distributing posters reporting an escaped snake to the production of mock scientific diagrams that visualized how homework impacts children’s stress levels (Gootjes-Klamer & Popkema, 2019). The assignment and other arts projects were part of Arts in Learning—a large-scale project of the teacher-training college Viaa, in cooperation with local elementary schools and arts institutions. Together, these partners developed innovative arts courses for pupils that “evoke both ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Making the Monster House: Process, Assemblage, and the Study of
Children’s Drawing Practices
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  Abstract: This paper asks what insights and new knowledge can be gained from an exploration of process and assemblage in the study of children’s drawing practices. Many recent publications in the study of children’s art and arts education have explored the importance of process, assemblage, embodiment, and matter (e.g., Hood & Kraehe, 2017; Knight, 2013; MacRae, 2011; Page, 2018; Schulte, 2015). Within the study of children’s art and drawing practices, this marks a shift away from approaches that emphasize semiotics and the construction of meaning (e.g., Hopperstad, 2010; Kress, 1997; Matthews, 1999; Pahl, 1999) and developmental stages (e.g., Lowenfeld, 1960; Piaget, 1972). The works focusing on assemblage, process, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Terrifying Allure: The Beauty of Harley Quinn in U.S. and Mexican Cosplay
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  Abstract: The DC Comics character Harley Quinn is a heroine, anti-heroine, and survivor. From her appearance in Batman: The Animated Series to the present day, Quinn remains one of DC’s most popular characters and an internationally favorite choice for cosplayers (McCabe, 2017). The way that Quinn’s appearance shifts as her character evolves allows many fans to feel affective resonance with her, identifying with some aspects of her personality and aspiring to others. The study of this phenomenon, whereby fans observe visual representations and then produce them both accurately and creatively, reveals a great deal about how cosplay functions in different national circumstances, in different income brackets, and within ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
Influences of a Classroom Setting on Students’ Artistic Processes
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  Abstract: “I would start cleaning up if you haven’t begun.” The teacher’s announcement to the class caused Claire to look up from her table, where pencils, markers, and watercolor surrounded the artwork that was well underway. Bending her head back down, she continued with quicker gestures of her pencil on the paper. Claire’s table partner motioned hurriedly to the mass of supplies around her. With a slump of the shoulders and a sigh, Claire grabbed the supplies, running them to their respective cabinets, joining the murmuration of students tidying the space. The bell rang as Claire rushed to place her work on the shared drying rack, already overflowing with student work. She grabbed her backpack and raced out the door. As a ... Read More
  PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00