The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance

Abstract

This essay examines what was called the academization of the North American avant-garde in the 1970s and 1980s, arguing for a material historical understanding of the role that academic institutions played in sustaining avantgarde distribution coops , regionalizing exhibition, publishing criticism, providing employment, and developing future generations of artists, critics, and audiences.

Creativity Narratives Among College Students: Sociability and Everyday Creativity

“…Moreover, very little research explicitly focuses on how students make sense of their experiences and the meanings that they construct around different social, educational, and cultural activities (e.g., Moffatt 1989). And just as a collaborative research agenda has emerged to share what scholars do know, this agenda confronts the dynamic reality of an ever‐evolving creative campus (Cantor and Lavine 2006; Zryd 2006). For example, there are new conceptions of creativity, both in industry and the arts, that now incorporate buzzwords like “synergistic thinking,” interdisciplinary practice, hobbies and crafts, and new forms of thought and language 4…”