Jacobs Lecture

In the Mary Jane Jacobs lecture, Mary began the lecture by talking about art and its relation to space. She expressed her pleasure for large art pieces, saying that space is a large contributor to art experiences. She spoke about how this concept obviously meant there is a need for larger art galleries, because the gallery itself has a lot to do with the experience the art viewer has. Jacobs quotes Dewey who said “in order to understand aesthetic, you must start with the raw”. In order to do this, there must be an appropriate setting for the art piece. For Jacobs, this place was Charleston, South Carolina. This all compares very well to something Miwon Kwan said, “These artists eschew the constricting limitations not only of artistic conventions but of the traditional institutional spaces of their production, such as studios, museums and galleries.” (106-7).