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The Subject of Art in Process: Undressing the Emperor's Nude Close - Towards a MetaModern Art and ArtEducation

by Stanley Horner

185 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #99-0077; ISBN 1-55212-327-8; US$22.75, C$35.00, EUR22.80, £15.80

The Subject of Art in Process not only sets out to construct a new visual-based paradigm, one that attempts to address the vast array of complexities facing today's artists, but perhaps, more importantly, it opens the door to a possible Renewed Art Education.

The Subject of Art in Process introduces IIAE (InterActive InterDisciplinary Art Education), an orientation grounded in the practice of inner image/outer image fluency of individual subjects engaged as members in a community of voices and as activators, inter-activators, and retro-activators, and, in particular, selfTeachers (intra-activators), in a community of voices that share interDiscliplinary knowledge.

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About the Book The Subject of Art in Process introduces the Analogos paradigm and syntagm into the public domain for the first time. It is a construct designed to assist (especially sensory-based) multi-practitioners in the process of lucid and layered thinking; hopefully, it can facilitate users to better understanding the complexities of event-processes. While semiotics generally ignores the 'subject', the Analogos foregrounds it as basic to all intra-active and interactive dialogue. While structuralism generally ignores the diachronic (temporal process), the Analogos foregrounds it and integrates it into the problematic of the synchronic, the domain of timeless stasis, still images. The text also introduces into the public domain, if ever so slightly, the use of UFI (Uze'r Frendlee Inglish), a new notation system that is capable of carrying aspects of the vocal sounds of the speaker along with the meanings already possible when writing standard English. UFI introduces only two rules that are completely new: a dot after a vowel is pronounced as a long vowel sound (a-e-i-o-u as spoken when saying the alphabet); a slur or short-short vowel (written as an apostrophe, inside a word) is pronounced like the 'oo' in the word 'good' (in Canada). All the other basic 'roolz' are 'natural' to readers and writers of English; these are included in the Appendix-written in UFI. (See the preface for more; these are from there). Visit the author's website!

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About the Author Stanley Horner, formerly a Professor of Studio and Art Education at Concordia University, Canada, grew up in the remote Upper Ottawa Valley; he currently resides with his wife in Victoria, BC, where he works with traditional and high-tech visual media, music and text; he has two children living in Montreal. Other books by Stanley Horner Orchestrating ArtEvents Sincro.Nis'tee: Reaching <I Ching> Excerpt The Subject of Art in Process addresses questions such as: o How does process activate interactions between persons? o How can process be decoded so as to be better understood? o How can ordinary persons and dedicated practitioners share in the process of accessing art? o What is the make-up of art objects? of performances? of art images? of moving art images? o How might art be taught in the light of contemporary issues? o How can one learn to teach ones self? o What characterizes the new metaModern art of the new millennium? The Subject of Art in Process not only sets out to construct a new visual-based paradigm, one that attempts to address the vast array of complexities facing today's artists, but perhaps, more importantly, it opens the door to a possible renewed Art Education. Territorial specialists of Modernism are more and more being joined by the border-crossing multi-practitioners of MetaModernism. Whereas DBAE (Discipline Based Art Education) endorsed the Modernist preoccupation with discrete domains of knowledge and a top-down hierarchy that focused more on the 'subject matter' than on the 'subject agent', the Analogos proposes an intra-/inter-active, interdisciplinary option for the opening of the new Millennium. IIAE (InterActive InterDisciplinary Art Education) is grounded in the practice of inner image/outer image fluency of individual subjects engaged as members in a community of voices and as activators, inter-activators and retro-activators, and, in particular, selfTeachers (intra-activators), in a community of voices that share interDisciplinary knowledge. Reviews The Subject of Art in Process Book Review, by Annie Macdonald The book written by Stan Horner is unlike anything I have read or seen. Totally unique in content and execution, it invites readers of all persuasions to multiple journeys. I imagine different readers finding the text hard to put down, and hard to get into. Delightful and daunting because of its many inventions: Uze'r Frendlee Inglish, for example, introduces an incomparable approach to art and art education, born out of years of practice and research. At the same time, attracting and repulsing attention, with the mischievous dance of a language mastered and reinvented, it might both enlighten and obscure many previous beliefs and concepts the lay person, the experienced artist, teacher, researcher or art critic may hold. In an eminently earnest effort and audaciously humorous attempt to divulge his research and findings, Horner proposes to anyone interested in innovative concepts, an in-depth analysis of a fascinating approach simple in concept and application, complex in scope. After years of practice as educator, his orientation remains for me, in its hallucinating clarity the best and most practical model. Catalogue Information Canada • USA • UK • Europe Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of use | Author Login URL http://www.trafford.com © 1995-2007 Trafford Publishing, a division of Trafford Holdings Ltd.