Letting Art Teach. Art Education 'after' Joseph Beuys

by Gert J.J. Biesta

In this book, Gert Biesta presents a new approach to contemporary art education by showing the unique possibilities the arts offer for being in dialogue with the world. This approach to art education is based on teaching as a process of showing, in which the teacher shows the student what could be good, important or meaningful in the world to pay attention to. As a starting point for illustrating this process, Biesta uses the ‘Aktion’ How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare from 1965 by Joseph Beuys, of which this book contains many images.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Art

125 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Gert Biesta is Professor of Educational Theory at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter and Visiting Professor for Education and Democratic Citizenship at Örebro University and Mälardalen University, Sweden.

Reviews

[Vice Arneodo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly a bit disappointed with the book and the very concept of this book. The " few" themes covered are interesting, but the way they are developed is unnerving. Interminable and inexplicably complex sentences that go round and round and say nothing . Philosophical concepts that are all summed up in the final concluding chapter, the question then arises: why dwell so long in empty sentences that don't really go anywhere , and then explain them clearly in the last 3 pages ? 🤔

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een boek dat een hedendaagse visie op kunsteducatie presenteert en dat vaak geciteerd wordt in kunsteducatieve context. De krachtigste hoofdstukken zitten aan het begin en einde van het boek waar de auteur helder zijn kritiek en concept neerzet, inspirerend voor iedereen die in kunstonderwijs lesgeeft.