Abstract:
A critique of meanings and interpretations of culture that have a connectedness with art and art teaching, teachers and students, and society within and beyond schools provided a critical framework for my doctoral research. In this paper I explicate a number of the interpretations of culture encountered in the literature which raise issues of how art is represented and classified. These interpretations inspired me, post-thesis, to generate a series of art works during 2007. The aim of this paper is to show how I used art works to demonstrate that they can function as a multi-layered interpretive act, as a re-presentation of a literature review, and as a 'voice' with which to challenge pedagogical practices in art education.