The 2 vols chart both the theory and practice of art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity, and they articulate a new value base for the field. Vol 2 presents essays exemplifying some of the tactics of pun(k) deconstruction.

Contents: Preface. Part I: Questioning Representation. Learning From Sal(l)ad: Redressing the Historical Narrative (1985-1992). On the Impossibility of Men in Feminism: Taking a Hesitant Step Through the Minefield of Feminism in Art and Education (1989). The Question of Representation: The Case of AIDS (1991). Part II: Experifigural Writing. Blue Velvet, or Whatever Happened to 'Presence'?: Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Impact on Arts Education (1987). The Nostalgia of Art Education: Back to the Future, Part 4 (1992). The Nostalgia of Art Education: Reinscribing the Master's Narrative, Part 5 (1994). Part III: The Question of Youth in the Postmodern? The War of Labels: An Art Educator in Search for a Sign (1993). Violence and Generation X: How the New Right is Managing the 'Moral Panic' Through Television and Teen Films (1996).