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Article: Of diagrams and rhizomes: Visual culture, contemporary art, and the impossibility of mapping the content of art education
- Article from:
- Studies in Art Education
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright National Art Education Association Spring 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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What are the boundaries of art education? Discipline-Based Art Education expanded the content of art education, and now, proposals to move art education toward visual culture promise to further complicate our field. The difficulty encountered in attempting to add the content of emerging contemporary artworks and popular visual culture to a map of art education provides an analogy for the problems faced by proponents of visual cultural-based curricula. In this article, the dojinshi phenomenon, pertaining to the fanzine-like comic books that Japanese teenagers create, is used to illustrate the futility of diagramming within art education content which is rhizomatic-more like the tangle of a ...