Our Journal - JSTAE - Calls
The theme set for the 18th issue is the community as it becomes
interpreted in the contemporary habitats of art education. Do modernist
movements of community hold any validity in telematic cultures like our
own where e-mail and the mobile telephones have destroyed the notion of
territorial space? A colleague in some distant corner of the globe can become
closer than you next door neighbor! How are artistic communities formed
today? Is it based on economic grounds, like the loosely formed group of
Impressionists rather than on some more noble moral and/or ideological grounds?
Can they only be defined negatively, i.e. by what they are NOT in relation
to what they once were? A re-evaluation of modernist artistic communities
have brought about conflicting interpretations: the anti-academic and anti-bourgeois
Barbizon group, for instance, which included Millet and sometimes radicals
like Daumier have since been attacked for their over-romanticization of
the peasant. The international artist colony in Brittany, the Pont Aven
circle, was formed as an escape from modernization by artists seeking more
backward looking forms of organicism. German expressionist circles like
Die Brucke fetishized ìprimitivismî and ìtribalî
peoples, adopting a ìprimitiveî way of life in a revolt against
modern urban civilization and bourgeois sexual norms. Blaue Reiter were
the first to live with their models which at least tipped some of the power
relations as to who was being represented with consent and input. Are there
similarities today between these communities and technophobic artists and
art educators who refuse to participate in the emerging technologies of
ìdesignerî capitalism? Can we make an assessment on ethical
grounds as to what the future of an artistic community holds?
The editorial staff of JSTAE invite submissions which involve such emerging
issues or others that may be seen to deal with the values of this organization.
Send writings to : Prof. jan jagodzinski, Univ. of Alberta, Dept. of Secondary
Education, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5. The deadline for such pieces
to be considered for publication is January 1st, 1998.
1999 editor Dr. Yvonne Gaudelius, The Pennsylvania
State University, ymg100@psu.edu
1999 Theme: Dialogue as Empowered Pedagogy
The deadline for such pieces to be considered for publication
is January 15, 1999. |
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