Korsmeyer, Part Six – Preface through Chapter 33 (pp 295 - 323)

When I think about genuis, I think there are multiple kinds of genuis. Someone can be educational genuis, like Einstien, or someone can be artistically genius like any of the great artists that are constantly shown in galleries and museums around the world. I don't think that there is one or the other, or one definition for that matter.

In Immanuel Kant's passage, he discusses how genius is something you cannot aquire. It is not something you can pass on or even learn through education. It is something you can only have if you are born with it. He discusses how "genuis must be considered the very opposite of a spirit of imitation," and how learning is nothing but imitation. Science and math are all taught by someone, and art is someone creating something from within themselves, not imitating something that is already there. When you teach something you are simply imitating something someone else has already created, it is nothing but imitation just as Kant said. Kant then goes on to discussing how you don't need education and cannot learn "genuis."

Linda Nochlin discusses education and genuis. She talks about how artists are educated in society and how problems start there. She then goes on to discuss the problem women have with establishing themselves in society and the art world. I think she starts off talking about problems and then kinda stems off on a women's rights subject, which is a problem, but does it have to do with her topic? schooling and education and genuis? She starts talking specifically about womenly artistic genuis.