To De-Politicize Art Schools, Students Need to Fight Back

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | December 16, 2020 | Michael J. Pearce

[karpov]

It has never been harder to teach artistic individualism in America.

A religious devotion to the causes of social justice dominates the ideas of professors in the academy, and David Randall’s report “Social Justice Education in America” has made clear that their evangelical zeal for teaching students the merits of intersectional political activism is topped only by the enthusiasm of university administrators for it.

The cultish creed has permeated throughout universities, with moderate professors bowing to the mob and leaving the tiny minority of their conservative colleagues paranoid and fearful of speaking out against the ideology that has dominated them. Their voices are silenced by the threat of anonymous denunciations and by the examples that have been made of bullied colleagues who endured threats of violence, unemployment, lost homes, and the harm caused to their families.

Thus, the burden of making change happen within art schools may rest upon the shoulders of art students who abhor demands to politicize their work.

The social justice warriors’ ongoing takeover of American education extends to attacks upon art museums, which is where education meets the public sphere. They recently forced the closure of a traveling retrospective show of paintings by Philip Guston. Why? The museum’s boards were frightened that Guston’s paintings of Klansmen might “trigger” their visitors, despite the fact that the artist always used them as symbols of evil.

The exhibit was canceled due to fear of the social justice mob.

[PGR88]

Most School education bureaucracies are now vast, controlled, unionized and highly political, power-seeking bureaucracies.

To de-politicize schools, they districts need to be broken up.

[GOP Poet]

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[PGalt]

Wait wut? No pizzchrist “art”?

How ‘bout walkin’ around with the likeness of severed bloody heads for comedic relief?

[Red Badger]

Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35

Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

[a fool in paradise]

They are being taught to create Leftist state propaganda.

There are open call and competitions to create political messaging for Democrat candidates and causes and they are sponsored and exhibited at allegedly apolitical 501c3 tax cheat organizations.

[Albion Wilde]

When Zola chided Proudhon that artists were “peculiar people who do not believe in equality,” he meant that they were in the business of crafting a successful life for themselves by making unique and commercially successful art, and he was raising the battle standard of individualism against the drab flags of uniformity.