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Students in "Beyond Art History" Engage with the Artwork of Philip Guston and Trenton Doyle Hancock

Students in "Beyond Art History: Practices of Perception and Creation in Historical Perspective" (taught by Kevin Slick) visited the Jewish Museum for a guided tour of "Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston."
Students engaged these artists and their work in terms of a dialogue around shared concerns and aesthetic approaches.  Moreover, students wondered how artists can address complex and fraught issues such as racial prejudice, discrimination, racist violence, and historical memory and reckoning, especially when those means of confrontation and interrogation are provocative and evocative (and sometimes literally comical). 

Submitted by High School History Teacher Kevin Slick
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