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Paint and Pedagogy: Anton Ehrenzweig and the Aesthetics of Art Education
Author(s) -
Williamson Beth
Publication year - 2009
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.1476-8070.2009.01618.x
Subject(s) - psychoanalytic theory , studio , psychic , convention , art , space (punctuation) , order (exchange) , visual arts , field (mathematics) , visual arts education , sociology , aesthetics , pedagogy , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , the arts , social science , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , mathematics , finance , pathology , pure mathematics , economics
Anton Ehrenzweig's work training art teachers at Goldsmiths College in London was groundbreaking in its field. The work of the studio fed back into Ehrenzweig's writings through his reflections on teaching and the work produced in end of year shows. In The Hidden Order of Art (1967), he theorised the creative process in psychoanalytic terms and elsewhere likened the task of the art teacher to that of a psychotherapist. In this article I argue that, by taking psychoanalytic art theory into the teaching studio, Ehrenzweig provided a psychic space within which students were freed from convention and encouraged to pursue their own practice.