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- Title
Whose Line is it Anyway?: Visual Culture Spaces as Learning Environments.
- Authors
Carpenter II, B. Stephen
- Abstract
As visual culture sites, barbershops are of interest to art education because they function as metaphorical interactive hypertexts in which patrons explore life issues. Such visual culture sites are also socially constructed environments for learning. In this article, the author describes two barbershops with different visual cultures but a common curriculum in which boundaries among education, high culture, and entertainment blur. These barbershops are described as complex systems that are spontaneous, unpredictable, and constantly evolving. The author presents examples of a television commercial and student-created concept videos as visual culture sites worthy of study in similar ways. The article concludes that such visual culture sites encourage important confrontations with aspects of the world that a standards-based curriculum neglects.
- Subjects
VISUAL anthropology; MARKETING strategy; BARBERSHOPS; ART education; TELEVISION advertising; SOCIAL learning; BUSINESS planning; SOCIAL psychology; SERVICE industries
- Publication
Visual Arts Research, 2006, Vol 32, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
0736-0770
- Publication type
Article