Page architecture celebrating 30 years

G. James Daichendt, Ed.D. is an art critic and art historian 

who serves as Professor and dean of arts and humanities at 

Point loma nazarene university in southern California. he is 

the founding and principal editor of Visual inquiry: learning and 

Teaching art (intellect) as well as the author of the following 

books: kenny scharf: in absence of myth (2016); shepard fairey 

inc. artist/Professional/Vandal (2014); stay Up! los angeles 

street art (2012); artist scholar: reflections on Writing and 

research (intellect, 2011); and artist-Teacher: a Philosophy for 

Creating art (intellect, 2010). daichendt holds a doctorate from 

Columbia university and graduate degrees from harvard and 

boston university.

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Q&A

Celebrating 30 years

what sCholar or sCholarly book/artiCle has had 

the biggest imPaCt on your own researCh?

John Dewey’s Art as Experience captured the way I felt about the 

arts at an early age.

what are you Currently working on?

I am writing a biography on the political artist and satirist 

Robbie Conal. 

what is the biggest threat to eduCation?

Reality television and the Kardashians.

you are having a dinner Party and you have to 

invite one thinker, one musiCian, one artist and 

one ContemPorary Celebrity, who would be on 

the guest list?

If I could bring back Clement Greenberg to eat with 

Lady Gaga, Banksy, and Jim Gaffigan – it would make 

for an interesting conversation. 

what is your favourite smell?

Pretty sure it’s pizza.

intelleCt was founded in 1986. what were you 

most likely doing that year?

I was eleven years old and trying to prove to my friends 

that I was an artist.

if you Could bring something extinCt baCk to life, 

what would you Choose?

Dinosaurs, definitely dinosaurs. 

who would Play you in the film of your life?

Anyone but James Franco.

what would your suPer Power be?

Super speed.

do you have a favourite bookshoP?

The Strand in New York City. 

do you have a favourite gallery?

No – too many to choose from. 

what is the Closest you’ve Come to death?

A tyre fell off my car while I was driving on a dangerous section 

of a freeway when I was nineteen years old.

what song would you like Played at your funeral?

‘Another One Bites the Dust’.

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Celebrating 30  years

an interview with 

the editors of

Queer studies in 

media & PoPular 

Culture