What can postmodernism do for, or to, educational research? The article discusses its potential for resisting closure and simplification. Developing a "preposterous", anachronistic postmodern method that is caught up with surrealism and the baroque, the article plays with "trompel'oeil" paintings and outmoded popular entertainments such as magic…

Describes a program that involved high school students in the painting of murals of their own creation on the plaster walls of their school. (RB)

This paper discusses the meaning of a work of art to assist with curriculum decisions in the arts. (DB)

Examines the interdependence of language and image in a poster series by Shosaku Arakawa and relates the displacement of writing from the book page to his canvases or posters to theories of performative language to show that his work is itself performance. (DF)

Interpreting art necessarily leads to a revelation of one's inner self. (CK)

This Instructional Resources continues our 2004 series on forms of "public art" that included Susan Goetz Zwirn's contribution on images of work in the 1930s (March 2004), Carol Argiro's exploration of public sculpture (July 2004), and Mary Jane Zander's work on WPA post office murals (September 2004). This Instructional Resources explores an art…

Parallels in the artistic expression of twentieth century painters and some mentally retarded persons are described, and the value of spontaneous creation for the retarded is emphasized. (CL)

To the Indian, art is a way of seeing, and the Indian painters of the 1970s have given greater emphasis to the personal nature of seeing than have any Native artists before them. Article discusses recent trends, qualities, and innovations in Indian art and some of the significant Indian artists.

Anishinabe (Chippewa) artist George Morrison was trained in European art styles and has been influenced by abstract expressionism, surrealism, primitivism, and indigenous art forms. He discusses the recurring horizon line in his works and the relationships between Native and Western artistic styles. (SV)

This brief article presents describes Pablo Picasso's oil on canvas painting, "Still Life with Glass and Lemon, 1910." Composed of abstract, monochromatic shapes, this painting's original subject is surprisingly a glass and lemon. The artist, Pablo Picasso, developed this unique system of breaking down objects into their basic geometric parts with…