Art Education in a Postmodern World

Tom Hardy is an artist/musician who, while at Hornsey College of Art, and, under the stage name of Lester Square, was a founder member of Adam and the Ants, performing to this day with Ants alumni, The Monochrome Set. His other band associations have been with The Native Hipsters, Helen and the Horns, The Invisible, Wire and Jesus Couldn't Drum. He has also worked as an occasional composer of soundtrack and incidental music, including Akiko Hada's 'The Fall of a Queen, or the Taste of Fruit to Come' (Channel 4), 'No One Likes Us, We Don't Care' (Channel 4) and 'Heroes' (NBC). He was a director of the first Salford University Pop Music Summer School, a consultant for the QCDA and recently co-organized a Music and Art conference for the Princes Teaching Institute with the remit of reporting findings to the Department for Education.

• Chapter 1: 'A Manifesto for Art in Schools' - Page 17 - Tom Hardy Chapter 2: 'Nick Stanley and Sarat Maharaj: A Discussion' - Page 27 - Sarat Maharaj Chapter 3: 'Censorship in Contemporary Art Education' - Page 33 - Lee Emery Chapter 4: 'Post-it Culture: Postmodernism and Art and Design Education' - Page 45 - Stuart W. MacDonald Chapter 5: 'The Trouble with Postmodernism' - Page 57 - Stuart W. MacDonald Chapter 6: 'Postmodern Feminisms: Problematic Paradigms'- Page 67 - Lesley Burgess Chapter 7: 'The Knowing Body: Art as an Integrative System of Knowledge' - Page 77 - John Danvers Chapter 8: 'Postmodernism and the Art Curriculum: A New Subjectivity' - Page 91 - Malcolm Miles Chapter 9: 'Challenges to Art Education from Visual Culture Studies' - Page 99 - Paul Duncum Chapter 10: 'Who's Afraid of Signs and Significations? Defending Semiotics in the Secondary Art and Design Curriculum' - Page 113 - Nicolas Addison Chapter 11: 'On Sampling the Pleasures of Visual Culture: Postmodernism and Art Education' - Page 125 - Robin Marriner Chapter 12: 'A Critical Reading of the National Curriculum for Art in the Light of Contemporary Theories of Subjectivity' - Page 137 - Dennis Atkinson Chapter 13: 'Assessment in Educational Practice: Forming Pedagogised Identities in the Art Curriculum' - Page 147 - Dennis Atkinson

Hardy's book of essays is useful in that it helps the reader contextualize movements like visual culture as an initiative that has its roots in the postmodern cultural situation.'