George Smith

Founder and President / Edgar E. Coons, Jr., Professor of New Philosophy

GEORGE SMITH founded the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in 2006. IDSVA is the first school in the world to offer a PhD in philosophy especially designed for visual artists, curators, and creative scholars. Professor Smith serves on the IDSVA Core Faculty and writes on literature, the visual arts, visual culture, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy of education. He is the author of The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy (Routledge 2018). His forthcoming The Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics is due from Routledge in 2021.

Participation on Humanity Rising

Day 150 Tuesday December 1, 2020 From Cacophony to Coherence through the Arts and Philosophy