Tues 7.20.10| The Art of Looking

Jacob and Bass, eds., Learning Mind: Experience into Art SAIC & UC Press, 2009

Michael Brenson, Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America The New Press, 2000

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What are you looking at? The Spanish artist Juan Munoz called that his first artistic question. Art critic Michael Brenson has been thinking about that question for a decade; it's changed the way he encounters art. According to Brenson, that question leads to many others, all of which can enhance how we go about engaging with, and learning from, works of art.

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