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Tacit Knowledge
Post Studio/Feminism – CalArts 1970-1977
Annette Jael Lehmann

273 pp.
180 black-white illustrations
perfect bound softcover



Leipzig August, 2019
ISBN: 9783959053419

Width: 20.5 cm
Length: 27 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
Annette Jael Lehmann

Designer
Studio Pandan

Co-Editor
Verena Kittel

Tacit Knowledge provides an insight into the complex artistic and educational practices that characterized the first decade of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). There is a special focus on the conceptual and feminist strategies developed in and from John Baldessari’s Post Studio class as well as Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro’s Feminist Art Program, which was initiated in 1970 and brought to the newly founded art school in 1971. As Post Studio and feminist practices at CalArts are often characterized by the specific entanglement of cognitive and (habitual) bodily forms of knowledge, the idea of tacit knowledge, and thus learning through social and performative contexts of action, functions as an overarching principle linking all the contributions in the book. Combining short introductions with in-depth case studies and a broad range of documental and photographic material, the experimental publication takes the form of a magazine, allowing a diverse and lively approach to the ideas shaping the early years of CalArts. 

Annette Jael Lehmann is professor of contemporary art, visual culture and theater at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Authors: Kim Albrecht, Lea Becker, Katharina Brandt, Léïla Douliba, Carla Gabriel, Jennifer Gaschler, Pauline Gründing, Verena Kittel, Friederike Krause, Vivien Lambert, Annette Jael Lehmann, Alice Rugai, Jeffrey Schnapp, Anna Sønderup 

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