ABSTRACT
Art education has been shaped by modernism and structuralism. Art history was a summation of the great works that benchmark the progress of humankind, the knowledge base of art education is to continue the Western heritage. In art education, the wedding of popular art to great art as part of the curriculum is becoming more and more common. Art and life are wedded together as members of the Caucus On Social Theory and Art Education uphold. Structuralism was decidedly anti-humanist. It rejected the myth that meaning begins and ends in the individual's "experience," hence it rejected any phenomenological and hermeneutic positions. Performance art in general supports the tenets of poststructuralist and postmodernist art. There is an attempt to include the individual as a site of his/her own autobiographical situation. That sight is structured by skin color, gender, age, position, and the cultural capital of the language used.
