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Bazon Brock's Visitors’ School on Documenta in Kassel: Training for Reception of Contemporary Art. / Biryukova, Marina.
In: International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 38, No. 1, 01.02.2019, p. 207-223.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Bazon Brock's Visitors’ School on Documenta in Kassel: Training for Reception of Contemporary Art
AU - Biryukova, Marina
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - This article analyses the problem of reception and interpretation of contemporary art exhibition in the context of Besucherschule (Visitors’ School) invented by Bazon Brock: German philosopher, art historian and a follower of Theodor Adorno. He implemented this practice for the first time on documenta 4 in Kassel (1968) and organised such schools of reception until documenta 9 (1992). The aim of the Visitors’ School was to explain works of contemporary art on display to the public. Brock understood this process as ‘mediation’ in aesthetic education, arguing that dependence on theory was no less problematic for contemporary art perception than the lack of traditional art form. The main symbolic task of art – ‘claim for reality’, was demonstrated by Brock in two ideas: ‘new image-war’ and ‘speaking image’.
AB - This article analyses the problem of reception and interpretation of contemporary art exhibition in the context of Besucherschule (Visitors’ School) invented by Bazon Brock: German philosopher, art historian and a follower of Theodor Adorno. He implemented this practice for the first time on documenta 4 in Kassel (1968) and organised such schools of reception until documenta 9 (1992). The aim of the Visitors’ School was to explain works of contemporary art on display to the public. Brock understood this process as ‘mediation’ in aesthetic education, arguing that dependence on theory was no less problematic for contemporary art perception than the lack of traditional art form. The main symbolic task of art – ‘claim for reality’, was demonstrated by Brock in two ideas: ‘new image-war’ and ‘speaking image’.
KW - action teaching
KW - aesthetics
KW - art mediation
KW - Bazon Brock
KW - contemporary art education
KW - documenta in Kassel
KW - Visitors’ School
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U2 - 10.1111/jade.12172
DO - 10.1111/jade.12172
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053703643
VL - 38
SP - 207
EP - 223
JO - International Journal of Art and Design Education
JF - International Journal of Art and Design Education
SN - 1476-8062
IS - 1
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