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(2010) Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The phrase "the force of art" comes from the title of a book by Krzysztof Ziarek (2004), which I found very influential for my own thinking throughout the remainder of this book, especially his rethinking of the dynamics between art and power. Ziarek's book, together with Simon O"Sullivan's Art Encounters: Deleuze and Guattari, Thought beyond Representation (2006) and Stephen Zepke's Art as Abstract Machine (2005), offers art educators an important way to leave designer capitalism behind.1 Ziarek's development of art as a force field and his discussion of art's transformative possibilities as "forcework" are especially crucial for such a potential undertaking. This opens up a door to either supplement or complement visual culture in art education, which seems to be stuck on visual rhetoric and representation (as discussed earlier). It is worth spending time on Ziarek's thesis since it offers many parallels with O"Sullivan's important study for finding a flight from designer capitalism.
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Jagodzinski, J. (2010). An avant-garde without authority: can art (still) be progressive?, in Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-123.
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