Book Section
Eva Ehninger
The Art of Education
Art Schools as Subject and Model
This essay explores the potentials of art education — and aesthetic education more broadly — to ‘world’ modern art history. Art education has a material outcome, which can be analysed in light of the underlying theoretical and political premises regarding education and knowledge. It is locally implemented but globally networked and shared. Art schools allow for an object-based approach to topics of research, and this is integrated into local and regional contexts of learning and making. At the same time, they highlight complex transcultural entanglements across different timeframes and geographies.
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The Art of Education
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Art Schools as Subject and Model
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Eva Ehninger
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This essay explores the potentials of art education — and aesthetic education more broadly — to ‘world’ modern art history. Art education has a material outcome, which can be analysed in light of the underlying theoretical and political premises regarding education and knowledge. It is locally implemented but globally networked and shared. Art schools allow for an object-based approach to topics of research, and this is integrated into local and regional contexts of learning and making. At the same time, they highlight complex transcultural entanglements across different timeframes and geographies.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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July 7, 2026
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Germany
art education
modern art history
skill
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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39
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50
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Worlding Global Art Histories through Teaching, ed. by Eva Bentcheva, et al., Worlding Public Cultures (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2026), pp. 39–50
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