著者
竹内 有子
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.71, no.1, pp.13-24, 2020 (Released:2022-02-16)

Britain has a unique art education history, which is very different from that of the Continent. Major European nations established their art academies as state-funded schools focusing on fine art. In contrast, the British Parliament authorized the formal establishment of the Government School of Design (renamed as the National Art Training School in 1863, now the Royal College of Art) in 1837. It aimed to uplift the artistic quality of manufactures and to provide “design” education for British workers. The school elaborated the pioneering educational system, called the “South Kensington system”, in the latter half of the 19 th century. However, the school had been considered ill-managed and failed among Victorians. Also, former studies have negatively evaluated the school which did not envisage creativity for students. Casting a light on the autonomy of design as a new genre, this article shows the new clue to reconsider the problems, by focusing on the transformation made on the word “design”. The author examines how the school differentiated its education from the Royal Academy. Finally, this paper re-examines the significance of design education in the Government School of Design through the criticisms by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) who improved the instructional method.
著者
橘高 彫斗
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.71, no.1, pp.25-36, 2020 (Released:2022-02-16)

This paper examines the description in the first volume of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters of the process of the enjoyment of art, and clarifies how Ruskin illustrated that we see nature both internally and externally. Earlier studies regarded this book as a defense of J. M. W. Turner, and posited that it described Turner as a landscape painter who was faithful to nature, balancing romanticism and realism. However, Ruskin describes a process for the enjoyment of landscape art without explicitly naming Turner by using the word “idea.” I focus on this point and try to find new significance in the first volume of his Modern Painters.
著者
浪波 利奈
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.71, no.1, pp.37-48, 2020 (Released:2022-02-16)

The present study aims to clarify that Buddhism influences the aesthetic thoughts of KAWAI Kanjiro (1890-1966) in the post-war era, focusing on his word: “Work in which work does its work”. He got the idea of this motto in September 1948, thereafter it appeared in his collected essays “Hi-no-Chikai” [The Oath of Fire] published in November 1953. Looking closely at his diaries and notes, this paper investigates how it developed from his original thoughts on artistic creation. It became clear that the doctrine of Ippen (1239-1289) brought this motto to its completion. Kanjiro got the first suggestion from YANAGI Soetsu (1889-1961). His lecture “Mingei We Propose” (May 1948) quotes Ippen’s teaching: It is Nembutsu which does Nembutsu (i.e. Pray does its pray). According to Ippen, oneness of the prayer and the Amitabha Buddha is established in the moment of pray. Kanjiro took Ippen’s idea of the unity and expanded a concept of self-organizing function of artistic creation (work), where the artist or craftsman thoroughly merges in and beauty, as Kanjiro puts it, emerges from. Taking this into account, further this paper takes the concept ‘salvation’ into consideration and sees the similarity between Kanjiro and Ippen.