Das unbemerkte Wissen und Können der Laien : Bildpraxis und Bilderfahrung von Laienkünstlerinnen und -künstlern – Eine qualitativ-rekonstruktive Studie

Description

Paintings by amateur artists often go unnoticed. Whether in the shop window of an insurance broker, on the art market, within the department of fine arts or in the discourse of art education or cultural education. In this dissertation, they move into focus. The author is going to examine the implicit experiential knowledge that shapes the pictorial practice and experience of amateur artists. However, since both the aesthetic processes of experience and education as well as the implicit knowledge structures elude direct observation, the question also arises as to the methodological approach and presentation of this investigation. The aesthetic experience with Bernhard Waldenfels' responsive concept of experience, aesthetic education with Hans-Christoph Koller's transformational concept of education and the implicit knowledge and skills that organise an aesthetic practice form the theoretical basis of the observations.

Visual works by 34 study participants, which were created in an arranged experimental setting, and a subsequent guided interview serve as the data basis. The reconstruction of the orientations guiding the actions is based on Ralf Bohnsack's documentary method and is presented in detail using two selected works as examples. The method of image analysis is going to be developed further to bring together social and educational science with a phenomenological, an image-philosophical and an art educational approach. The study shows that it is precisely the implicit knowledge, the silent traces in the image or in the image practices that offer occasions for transformations, changes and formations of self and world relations which can become relevant to education.