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Inflection Points in/through Art Education: Conversations Today and a Look to the Future
  • ISSN: 2045-5879
  • E-ISSN: 2045-5887

Abstract

For your purposes as an art educator, how do you define ‘art’ and ‘artist’? Some critics argue that, in today’s art world, the ‘institutional’ definition of art reigns. What other definitions of art seem credible and useful to you as an art educator?

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2021-08-01
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