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Popular Culture’S Revolt Against The Normalizing Consequences Of Tradition, Pat Rafferty
Popular Culture’S Revolt Against The Normalizing Consequences Of Tradition, Pat Rafferty
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
For several years there has been an ongoing debate regarding whether street art (graffiti) qualifies as art or could be more aptly described as vandalism. While this paper does not claim to resolve the issue, a discussion of the corollary of that - the extent to which we are willing to tolerate divergence from normative expectations, lends insight into the topic of the means and limitations of what is representable as art.
Sandra Rowe: Androgyny And The Janusian Split, Charles Gaines
Sandra Rowe: Androgyny And The Janusian Split, Charles Gaines
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
The work of Sandra Rowe cannot be understood within the specific concerns of social/political discourse alone. Indeed, her subject matter suggests a deeper, more complex polemic. Rowe is interested in the postmodern controversy surrounding the nature of the subject, i.e., she is not only questioning the centralized and linear notion of subject as constructed by modernist discourse, but in fact positing an abstract notion of the subject, a theory of "lack" or "absence'" that stands as the privileged object of her investigation. The issues raised by her work are not important because of their social commentary alone, but also because …