You know, most artists don't just decide on a lark to go to art school and start from scratch, knowing nothing until their first lesson. Like many artists I knew a lot about art before I had any art schooling and was fairly well practiced. Visual literacy and formalist credentials are the same thing. WC
--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Tinkering with the System > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 2:41 PM > Before we fly away on a tangent: art career success was only > one of many > questions that I would study. > > Come to think of it -- there are schools for which that is > important and for > them, all of the other issues probably are probably less > so. > > From what I've seen, they tend to be very upfront with > statistics about job > placement. > > > So --- let's just drop that issue and look at all the > others -- including > "visual literacy" (Boris' term) or > "formalist credentials" (a phrase that > Kuspit attribed to William in the catalog for his > retrospective) > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click here to find the low cost way to send and receive > faxes by email! > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc1UbKo5CnRKPyHxWB9jP8kkuI > O2Dyxmah91gLfEwAMbAoVXe/
