Loading...
Touched by Turner
Adams, Jeff
Adams, Jeff
Advisors
Editors
Other Contributors
Affiliation
EPub Date
Publication Date
2015-02-15
Submitted Date
Collections
Files
Loading...
Main file
Adobe PDF, 5.94 MB
Other Titles
Abstract
This is a personal reflection on an encounter with the works of the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner in London’s Tate Britain exhibition ‘Late Turner: Painting Set Free’. The article discusses the deeply subjective nature of engaging with artworks, and touches upon theories that might account for the ineffable but moving experiences that sometimes occur in such situations, often unexpectedly, and analyses the associations that might prompt them – in this case the details of dogs in some of Turner’s works. There is a discussion of the theoretical frameworks that may provide an insight into these deeply subjective, personal and yet significant encounters, and how they can provide a means to a richer understanding of an artwork. The article considers the conditions that might be conducive to these contemplative, affective experiences, and how they might occur in educational settings with appropriate forms of pedagogy. The article concludes by contrasting slow, idiosyncratic and subjective learning through artworks, with the dominant, data-based and reductive trends that currently prevail in mainstream education.
Citation
Adams, J. (2015). Touched by Turner. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 34(1), 2-8. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12075
Publisher
Wiley
Journal
International Journal of Art & Design Education
Research Unit
DOI
10.1111/jade.12075
PubMed ID
PubMed Central ID
Type
Article
Language
en
Description
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Adams, J. (2015). Touched by Turner. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 34(1), 2-8. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12075, which has been published in final form at http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/jade.12075. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
Series/Report no.
ISSN
1476-8062
EISSN
1552-7816