Summary/Synopsis of: ANTOA – Arts Education Revised by RGW24c

In view of a recent job application at an institute for textbook and educational syllabus research, I propose revising Arts education along ANTOA´s lines. Most of its 5-column forecourt based on my interview series in South Africa from 1986-`88.

The revision as much affects a rather stale interpretation of social conflicts and wars. My new Arts concept exposes falsehoods and motivates for peace. Learners now deal with sincere inventiveness and a positive imagination instead of outdated and far-fetched ideas on how to master creativity. And a highlight is thrown on the social context, too, a uni- ersal phenomenon that alleviates, penetrates regional variations and an anthropologically inspired catalogue of questions. Yet the catalogue also throws a light on personal prefer-ences and styles of creative respondents. Social context furthermore facilitates understand-ing of such outlandish ideas like abstraction and absurdity.

A link to stone-age goups crops up and underlines the controversy around notions of culture.

The latter term often misrepresented and applied to beer drinkers or hooligans or cycling fanatics as well. Yet here the nomadic links between hunter-gatherers in the remote Kalahari desert are referred to. More links, overcoming a sheer chaotic and illogical nature, exist, and often culture is seen as wide net of human achievements over primordeal conditions.

I show that allegedly primitive stone-age culture worked in similar way to modern Art and quote anthropologists B Malinowski and AR Radcliffe Brown as well as painters E Nolde and M Pechstein in this regard.

As conclusion I offer 4 points in support of the revision of textbooks on creativity and Art:

1)       Use the job at the institute to unite all articles from the ANTOA series in a book.

2)       Translate the original interview book into German and French.

3)       Apply ANTOA to cummincations and media research.

4)       Include my email newletter issues on shows at Wolfsburg Artmusuem (x2) and at Luenburg`s Artqube gallery (x2) in revision of teaching Arts syllabuses.