Art Excess and Education Kartoniert (TB)

This book concentrates on the deep historical political and institutional relationships between art education and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history art criticism philosophy and aesthetics it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through contemporary art and from early film through the newer interactive media. Examples considered throughout the book focus on disgust grandiosity sex violence horror disfigurement endurance shock abundance and emptiness and frames them all within an educational context. Toge ther they provide theories and classificatory systems historical and political interpretations of art and excess examples of popular culture and suggestions for the future of educational practice.