Edited Excerpts From a Smithsonian Seminar Series

Abstract

In the first of three excerpts from seminars on collaborative knowledge generation in the arts, the sciences, and the humanities, two art curators and a filmmaker discuss the meaning of collaboration in their fields. Judith K. Ztlczer explores how 20th-century artists and art curators collaborate in creating new aesthetic expressions. Jan Stuart explains that, in Chinese painting, additions to a scroll by calligraphers or other painters is considered artistic collaboration with the original artist. Charles E. Guggenheim argues that filmmaking follows a different model, in which a single strong visionary identifies and enlists the talents of others in "a collaboration of compromise."