This studio course explores the role of text in art. It invites students to engage in the dialectic between the personal and social construction of knowledge in the arts by examining art criticism, journalism, essays, and the manifestoes written by artists themselves. These documents will provide points of departure for investigating how language shapes forms of thought and creative response. Students will construct and revise their writing as they form and refine relationships to their own work in the arts. Critiques and revisions will enable them to understand the conceptual process of actively interpreting, questioning, and making meaning.
