ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers art education as a constellation of connections and possibilities. It focuses on to revisit the relationship between art, doubt and error, and more specifically it is argued that, far from achieving change or emancipation, the sociology of knowledge has proved to be a perversion of art and education by a continuous act of myth-making posited as an excuse for instrumental practice. The book describes the argument by stating that far from guaranteeing any form of functional, pedagogical or sociological pacification, contemporary art moves and considers practice as a matter of normalcy, thus rejecting the neoliberal rhetoric which neither secures emancipation nor preserves difference. It explores the possibility of art and learning begin with a rejection of those assumptions by which art is considered as a closed form of knowledge privileged by institutions within the culture industry.
