Olhares distraídos, corpos pulsantes: ensino de arte e a constituição do corpo.

Abstract

This dissertation focuses two differerent discoursive fields, education and art, having as its starting point a discussion about the body. Its object is to analyze the discourses of elementary and middle school art teachers, as well as the National Curriculum Parameters for the teaching of art, in order to see how the teaching of art constitutes the body. Art here is viewed as a field of knowledge, irrespective of the different art genres, and the body as the place of such knowledge. The teaching of art, in its turn, is conceived as moment/space of production of aesthetic and sensitive knowledge. The main theoretical support is supplied by José Gil, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Tomaz Tadeu da Silva, Denise Sant’anna, Lúcia Santaella and Sandra Richter. In the analysis the dimensions involved in the relation art-body-teaching are emphasized, and some curricular possibilities for the production of aesthetic and sensitive knowledge, with and in the body, are explored.