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Conventional wisdom situates the artist as both the quintessential outsider and the keeper of the heart of the matter. In his nineteenth century poem Ode, a tribute to music makers whose stories shape the course of humankind, O’Shaughnessy describes poets in one breath as “world losers and world forsakers,” and in another as “world movers and world shakers” (1874). This curious dichotomy endures. Twenty-first century literature and media portray artists on the one hand as dark, troubled, and child-like (Walker 1993); and on the other as visionary, creative, and socially responsible. In O’Shaugnessy’s time, genius and apprenticeship fueled the artist’s soul; today’s artists seek legitimacy through undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Davis, J.H. (2016). Introduction. In: Hoffmann Davis, J. (eds) Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education. The Arts in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55243-3_1
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