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Art Interpretation as Subject Constitution Research on the Role of Critical Art History in Teacher Education
Author(s) -
Trafí Laura
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of art and design education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1476-8070
pISSN - 1476-8062
DOI - 10.1111/j.1476-8070.2004.00379.x
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , constitution , subjectivity , art methodology , visual arts education , subject (documents) , interpreter , sociology , gaze , contemporary art , aesthetics , epistemology , pedagogy , visual arts , art , psychology , the arts , philosophy , linguistics , political science , art history , computer science , law , performance art , programming language , library science , psychoanalysis
This article describes the foundations, development and some of the findings from a research project about how the use of ‘the gaze’, as a key idea from critical art history, might affect the understanding of art by art educators. It shows how the use of this key idea involved not just the disruption of a modernist model of art interpretation (based on the author and the oeuvre ), but also mediated the discursive production of the subjectivity of the interpreters as readers/writers of the work. The research was based in the interpretation of a specific artwork by Manet, A Bar at the Folies‐Bergère.