Marcia Selsor on wed 31 jan 01
Dannon,
You are so kind. I guess I must be a bit testy on the subject. (BTW
great article about Paula in
Jan. CM.) My local new Art Historian in my former worksplace, has
completely excluded any discussion of ceramics whatsoever in the basic
courses. I find this a travesty since the Archie Bray Foundation is
celebrating their global impact on world ceramics in their 50th
anniversary this year in our state of Montana. Does anyone else see the
irony in this?
Marcia
Dannon Rhudy wrote:
>
> ..........At 07:19 AM 01/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have suffered through three classses in my Art History course and
> >wanted to ask a question: is it standard that the prof explains the blue
> >glazed bricks that cover the Gate of Ishtar as having been "covered with
> >a paste of finely ground up rocks mixed with water and baked in an
> >oven"? .....
>
> I'm amazed that even THAT much explanation was given. I've never had
> an art history class where the professor knew anything whatever about
> ceramics. To be fair, they have gone through programs where nothing
> is taught about ceramics, so their opportunities to know are limited, if
> they've
> not bothered to find out on their own.
>
> I know that there are art history classes that do deal with ceramics, at
> least on some level. But for the most part ceramics is dealt with in CRAFT
> history courses, or courses specifically aimed at ceramics. There are some,
> by the way.
>
> Don't gnash your teeth over what the professor says. You can correct
> that particular ignorance if you like by writing a brief explanation of what
> the facts of the matter are and giving it to the professor. You might want
> to wait until AFTER grades are posted.....depends on the person you're
> dealing with. They might want to know. They might not want to know.
> They might REALLY not want to know that you know and they don't. More
> positively, you could request to do your term paper on ceramics, and
> slide corrections in that way.
>
> The last time I "corrected" a teacher in public was in fourth grade. She
> was telling us that a Mexican hat was a "SOM-bree-o". I actually thought
> that she'd WANT to know that the word was "somBRERo". I was wrong.
>
> regards
>
> Dannon Rhudy
>
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Marcia Selsor
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