Bazon Brock's "Visitors' School" on "Documenta" in Kassel: Training for Reception of Contemporary Art

Autor/in	Biryukova, Marina
Titel	Bazon Brock's "Visitors' School" on "Documenta" in Kassel: Training for Reception of Contemporary Art
Quelle	In: International Journal of Art & Design Education, 38 (2019) 1, S.207-223 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Biryukova, Marina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-8062
DOI	10.1111/jade.12172
Schlagwörter	Art Education; Exhibits; Aesthetics; Art Appreciation; Mediation Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Ästhetik; Kunstverständnis; Mediationsverfahren
Abstract	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'. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01