Corresponding with matters of pedagogy: Bauhaus, Black Mountain and beyond.

Winter, Judith

Abstract

This chapter explores the relationship between the modern art school approach to un-learning and anthropology; with specific reference to Bauhaus, Black Mountain and its global resonance and continuum. As Tim Ingold reminds us, the artist-educator Paul Klee repeatedly insisted, and demonstrated by example, that the processes of genesis and growth that give rise to forms in the world we inhabit are more important than the forms themselves. As Klee wrote in his notebook, ‘Form-giving is movement, action. Form-giving is life’ (Klee). This, in turn, lay at the heart of his celebrated ‘Creative Credo’ of 1920: ‘Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible’ (Klee). It does not, in other words, seek to replicate finished forms that are already settled, whether as images in the mind or as objects in the world. It seeks, rather, to join with those very forces that bring the form into being (Ingold). Using this statement as a trigger the text will explore how Paul Klee’s pedagogic approach played a significant part in the formation of the art school ecology and how that relates to the way we live our lives and shape and form our futures.

Citation

WINTER, J. 2026. Corresponding with matters of pedagogy: Bauhaus, Black Mountain and beyond. In Gatt, C. and Loovers, J.P.L. (eds.) Beyond perception: correspondences with Tim Ingold's work. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 9, pages 180-193. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003343134-13

• Online Publication Date: Jun 25, 2025
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2026
• Deposit Date: Aug 29, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 29, 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 180-193
• Series Title: Routledge studies in anthropology
• Book Title: Beyond perception: correspondences with Tim Ingold's work
• Chapter Number: 9
• ISBN: 9781032316949; 9781032380308
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003343134-13
• Keywords: Art education; Artist education; Artistic pedagogy
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2383100
• Additional Information: Description of the full book (available on the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003343134 ): This book showcases the way a range of scholars have engaged with Tim Ingold's opus since the publication of his ground-breaking The Perception of the Environment in 2000. Ingold's work has become key for a variety of disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, and human geography to art, architecture, design and studies of material and visual culture. As set out in The Perception of the Environment and subsequent publications, Ingold proposed an understanding of the world that placed sentient, remembering and imagining organisms, or inhabitants, some of them human, at the heart of an extensive field of socio-ecological relations. In this work, Ingold develops broad-ranging analyses of personhood, knowledge and skills, among many other topics. This volume sets out to synthesize critical scholarship drawing on Ingold's work, to lay out its principles, methods and results, and to demonstrate its contribution to reshaping both contemporary anthropology and wider intellectual terrains. By bringing together chapters from a variety of scholars, all critically furthering Ingold's proposals, the book advances a paradigm change occurring in various academic disciplines from "fixist" to "emergence" onto/epistemologies.
• Contract Date: Jun 26, 2024