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Teaching Cruel and Abject Art (http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/macaa2012/2012/oct05/6/)

Abstract

Abject art is highly affective, meaning that it generates strong sensations and feelings in viewers. In a classroom, high affect art demands that these reactions be integrated into the relationships between instructor, students and artwork. The affective classroom is then a classroom which summons high affects and walks a careful line between non-dialogic "shock" and a group therapy session, in order to understand affective relationships as proper material for learning. Affect is interactive and communicative by definition, but is unpredictable and uneven. Using my 2012 seminar in Abject Art, I outline the development and experience of teaching a semester of high affect art.

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Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

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