What Do Artists Know?

James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He coedited the previous volumes in the series, Art and Globalization (Penn State, 2010) and What Is an Image? (Penn State, 2011).

• ContentsSeries PrefaceIntroductionJames ElkinsThe Seminars1Histories of Studio Art Teaching2What Parts of Those Histories Are Relevant?3The Possibility of a Book on Art Teaching Worldwide4Knowledge, Part 15Knowledge, Part 26The First-Year Program7The BFA Degree8The MFA Degree9The PhD DegreeAssessmentsAreti AdamopoulouCiarín BensonAndrew BlackleyJan BaetensRobert NelsonBert Taken and Jeroen BoomgaardWilliam CongerAnders DahlgrenMichael FotiadisTom McGuirkGeorge SmithMartin SøbergSu BakerGary WillisYeung YangLouisa AvgitaRina AryaBrad Buckley and John ConomosCharles GreenHákan NilssonLaurie Fendrich and Peter PlagensJanneke WesselingVanalyne GreenGlenn AdamsonHenk SlagerChristopher CsikszentmihályiMarta EdlingSir Christopher FraylingMiguel González VirgenR.E.H. GordonBarbara JaffeeWilliam MarottiSaul OstrowDaniel PalmerStephan Schmidt-WulffenHoward SingermanAnn Sobiech MunsonRoy SorensonHilde Van GelderFrank VigneronFrances WhiteheadAfterwordHoward SingermanNotes on the ContributorsIndex

“This book asks one of the most important questions in contemporary art, and James Elkins's way of asking it is idiosyncratic, original, and inclusive. Anyone who is interested in the intelligence of art, or in the idea of art as a process of enquiry, will find this book informative and engrossing. What Do Artists Know? is a must for graduate art students, emerging artists, and those faculty who currently think they know all they need to know.”—Timothy Emlyn Jones, Dean of the Burren College of Art, Ireland