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The Eye, the Hand,
the Mind
Price: $29.95
Subtitle: 100 Years
of the College Art Association
Editor:
Susan Ball
Subject: Art
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4787-9
Pages:
328 pages, 13 color and
51 bw photographs
Publication Date: November 2010
Praise:
"This centennial history
of the CAA is an important statement by some of the leading actors in
one of this nation’s most important and unusual learned societies. The
CAA represents both intellectual and artistic creativity, and has
successfully represented artists to the national academic community for
100 years. The book, under the editorial direction of Susan Ball, makes
clear how unique the CAA is among the ACLS societies, and how adeptly
it has adapted to intellectual, artistic, and educational change over
the years. Bravo!"—Stanley
N. Katz, President Emeritus of ACLS
Description:
In 1911 the College Art Association began with a small group
of college art teachers whose single mission was to promote “art
interests in all divisions of American colleges and universities.” Now,
one hundred years later the CAA, as it is commonly known, is as diverse
as the decades that witnessed its maturity and growth. Leadership and
membership grew dynamically, and art and art history professors were
joined by non-academic visual artists and art historians—museum
professionals, art librarians, visual resource curators, independent
scholars and artists, collectors, dealers, conservators, and
non-college educators. The organization’s goals and interests became
more complex, addressing multiple concerns affecting all individuals
working in the visual arts. From one single goal, the purposes of the
CAA expanded to sixteen.
The Eye, the
Hand, the Mind is a collaborative journey, filled with pictorial
mementoes and enlivening stories and anecdotes. Its pages unfold along
a path—an architectural framework—that connects the organization’s
sixteen goals and tells its rich, sometimes controversial, story.
Readers will discover the important role the CAA played in major issues
in higher education such as curriculum development, preservation of
world monuments, workforce issues and market equity, intellectual
property and free speech, capturing conflicts and reconciliations
inherent among artists and art historians, pedagogical approaches and
critical interpretations/interventions as played out in association
publications, annual conferences, advocacy efforts, and governance.
Celebrating the centennial of CAA members and milestones, Susan Ball
and renowned contributors honor the organization’s complex history
which, in part, also represents many learned societies and the
humanities over the last one hundred years.
About the Author:
SUSAN BALL is the director of programs at the New York
Foundation for the Arts, the executive director emerita of the College
Art Association, and the director of the College Art Association
Centennial Book Project. In addition to editing The Eye, the Hand, the Mind, she
contributed a significant chapter.
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