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# Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students

**Brand:** james elkins
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- **What is this?** Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students by james elkins
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    Indeed.
  

*by W***G on Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2013*

Elkins is right. Even we, in a small art and design school at the ends of the earth, cannot agree on what it is we teach. Good. Its when people pretend that they know, that the trouble starts, and the discourse thickens, and the students glaze over etc etc. Beware of lecturers for whom the students and their work are the subject-object of a discourse they, the lecturers, are practicing on themselves. The question then becomes, what constitutes a lecturer, and what is a lecture, or a crit, or whatever? I tell my students that I am here to make noises around things that usually don't make noises. They say and do the the things that count.Elkins, as usual, clears the air around art.

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    Thought provoking
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2019*

The book itself is a great read. I found it to be a very interesting take on teaching art.

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    Five Stars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016*

Great read

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