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Under The Dome - April 1997, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Going Public: Women of Color Piece a Past to the Present for the Future.....p. 1
USC Showcase.....p. 1
McKissick Mornings: Summer Programs for Young People.....p. 2
Plans for Fall Folklife Festival Underway.....p. 3
The Annual Student Art Exhibition.....p. 3
Southern Food in the Spotlight.....p. 3
With a Little Help from Our Friends.....p. 3
Sotheby's to Return.....p. 3
Calendar.....p. 4
Exhibitions.....p. 4

The Perception Of Non-Perception: Lessons For Art Education With Downcast Eyes (Part One: Trompe-L’Oeil And The Question Of Radical Evil), Jan Jagodzinski

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The Roman historian Pliny recounts a story that occurred during Periclean Athens. I will utilize this story, as a trope to undertake an interrogation of perception as it is commonly understood and currently practiced by art educators in schools. In order to deconstruct vision/blindness, or the perception/non-perception binary, I have examined the psychoanalytic paradigm of Jacques Lacan. His current interpreters provided the conceptual tools for such an undertaking. Given that the question of representation has become a key sign-post of postmodernism, art educators must conceptualize a trajectory for itself in the 21st century. Part One of such a trajectory questions …