Table of Contents

Preface

Section Ⅰ: ART EDUCATION IN A POSTMODERN AGE

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Introduction: Between Apocalypse and Utopia (1986-1996)

Pretext: Sublimely Disciplined Classrooms

Text: The Signs of the X

Ⅰ   The Formation of Telematic Consciousness: Dispelled Memoreis
Ⅱ   The Invisibility of the Vitrine
Ⅲ   (Telos)coping the Logocentric Tradition
Ⅳ   Time for a Little Fashionable Taste
Ⅴ   Beauty Is SSSS: Slick, (S)Chic, Sleek, and Seductive: Shopping in the Hall of Mirrors
Ⅵ   A Good Try But...
Ⅶ   On Virtual Rule
Ⅷ   The Celluloid Earht and the Feminine Sublime
Ⅸ   Go Ahead, Just "Technologize Yourself!"  The Extreme Body of the Dynamic Sublime
Ⅹ   The Sublime Art of Waking You Up

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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing/ A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing:
Questioning the Find Arts in Our Schools. What's So Fine About It? (1989)

Ⅰ   A Personal Dilemma
                Government Intervention
                ........And The Results
                ........And Elsewhere

Ⅱ   Studio Arts...An Anachronism of the Past?
                The Medieval Legacy
                The Rise of Universities
                The Aristotelian Double Bind
                The Royal Seal

Ⅲ   The Cultural Shift
                The Rise of the Advertising Arts.
                The Appearance of the Avant-Garde
                A Hidden Handshake
                Glance Aesthetics
                The Separation of Mind and Body and Emphasis on Reason
                Decontextualized Knowledge
                Consumerist Arts

Ⅳ   Postmodernism and the Electronic Culture
                A Disappearing Childhood
                Educational Postures

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From the Palette to the Palate: Deconstructing the Consumerism of Art Education In an Age of Postmodernity (1984-1987)

Diary: 04. 07. 86

Ⅰ   Lowenfeld & Greenberg's Modernism

Ⅱ   Anti-Humanism: The Rhetoric of the End of Art Against the Rhetoric of the Return of Art

Ⅲ   A Lexicon of Postmodernism
              Anti-Presence, Anti-Representation, Anti-Mimesis
              The Death of the Artist/Author and the Birth of the Big Boy Burger
              From the Authenticity of the Artistic Signature to Artistic Discourse
              The Electronic Media of Postmodernism: The End of Art?
              Turning the Senses Inside Out: The "K(night)'s" Move of the Body Doubled, or
                    The Anti-Aesthetic and Anti-Commodity Impulses of Postmodernism
              Allegory and Symbol in Postmodernism: The Return of the Double
              The Last Stranglehold of Humanism: Piaget and the Development of Mind
              Postmodern Art Education?

Section Ⅱ: TAKING BACK!

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a Para/critical/sitical/sightical Reading of Ralph Smith's Excellence in Art Education (1987)

Pretext: "Bad Theater"

Text:     Smith's Phallocentrism
            Smith's Bourgeois Roots: The Seductive Argument of Imperialist Aesthetics
            The Technological "Slide"
            Smith's Sameness and the Question of Difference
            Smith's Reflective Criticism
            Questioning Hermeneutics
            Changed Times
A Manifesto for Art Education in Postmodern Times
            endcuts
            coda

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Re-Writing the A.I.M. Statement: A Sustained Andenken on Art Education in a Postmodern Society (1992-1993)

As I See It: Art in the Mainstream: A Statement of Value and Commitment

Ⅰ   Deconstructing Feldman's A.I.M.'s: Performing an Andenken on a Fragment in Art Education

            The Kantian Ruse
            In the Name of Kant
            Humanistic Criticism
            Feldman's Humanism
            A detour Through the Sublime
            The Tour Continues: A Feminine Sublime
            End of Art

Ⅱ   From the Naked Eye to the Camera: From the Conscious to the Unconscious

            Defending the Aura
            Technology as Fine Art's Other and the Case of "Sugar"
            Deconstructive Capitalism
            Popular Culture as Fine Art's Other

Ⅲ   Changed Times: Yuppie Postmodernism

            Some Necessary Distinctions
            The PopHigh

Ⅳ   Critical Postmodern Art Education: What's Possible?

            Art Education as Cultural Studies
            Textual Questioning: Displacing the Humanistic Subject
            Youth and Postmodernity
            Possibilities for Art Education
            Contradictions, Difficulties, Musings

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Reconfigurations of Kant (The supplement of the Sublime)
Should Art Education Liberate Itself From the Idea of the Aesthetics? (1996)

Ⅰ   Pretexts: Kant as the "Anchor Man"
      Text:
Ⅱ   The Kantian Paradigm Paradigm and Its Discontents
Ⅲ   Schiller with Foucault: Self-Technology against Alienation
Ⅳ   Kant with Foucault: Rewriting the Enlightenment
Ⅴ   Kant with de Man and J. Hillis Miller: Nominalist Extremes
Ⅵ   Kant Can't Be Saved: The Sublime Supplement
Ⅶ   "Kant with Sade": Radical Evil
Ⅷ   Kant with Derrida: The Question of the Frame
Ⅸ   Putting Oneself into the Abyss: A Proposed Trajectory for Ethical Art Educational Practice
Ⅹ   ?

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