The following discussion on the university and the creative arts was prepared for an audience of graduate deans under conditions noted in the first two paragraphs of the text. It is admittedly one-sided: I had suggested to the Association of Graduate Schools that a professor of drama, music, or the visual arts be given a hearing on the same program. The AGS urged me to lake the role of prosecutor, with the promise that its Committee on Policies would keep the subject on its agenda and afford opportunities for rebuttal. I am confident that readers of the ART JOURNAL will lake up the debate and thus help to clarify many of the issues involved in university training in the arts—W.M.L.
Read full abstract